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Identifier: handbooktomarsup00lydekk (find matches)
Title: A hand-book to the marsupialia and monotremata
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Lydekker, Richard, 1849-1915
Subjects: Marsupials Monotremes
Publisher: London : E. Lloyd
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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P. canescens in many of its characters, and forming, with that
species and P. schlegeli, a very well-defined section of the
genus it yet differs remarkably from all in the total suppression
of its posterior incisors and anterior premolars. Other speci-
mens are, however, urgently needed in order to determine
whether these dental peculiarities are constant.

THE TAGUAN PHALANGERS. GENUS PETAUROIDES.

Petauroides, Thomas, Cat. Marsup. Brit. Mus., p. 163 (1888).
Size large; fur very long, soft, and silky; ears very large,
oval, naked inside, hairy externally; flanks with a parachute-
like expansion of skin. Claws very long, highly curved, and
sharply pointed ; tail long, cylindrical, and evenly bushy with
the extreme tip prehensile and naked inferiorly. Skull and
molar teeth as in Pseudochirus.

Although very different in external appearance to the Ring-
tailed Phalangers, the structure of the skull and teeth and the
single representative of this genus clearly indicates that it must


PLATE XIV

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TAGUAN FLYING PHALANGER

THE TAGUAN PHALANGERS. 101

be regarded as a specially modified and volant relative of that
group.
I. TAGUAN FLYING PHALANGER. PETAUROIDES VOLANS.

Didelphis volans, Kerr, Linn. Anim. Kingdom, p. 199 (1792).
Phalanger volans, Lacépède, Mem. Inst, vol. iii., p. 491 (1801).
Petaurus taguanoides, P. macrurus, et P. peronii, Desmarest,
Nouv. Diet. dHist. Nat, vol. xxv., pp. 400, 402, 404 (1817).
Petaurista taguanoides Desmarest, Mamm.; vol. i., p. 269 (1820).
Petauroides volans Thomas, Cat. Marsup. Brit Mus., p. 164 (1888).

(Plate XIV.)

Characters.—Fur long, soft, and fluffy. General colour dark
ashy-grey, varying from nearly black to pale whitish-grey.
Ears very large, oval, and evenly rounded, with the inner sur-
face completely naked, and the back covered with fur like that
on the head. Under-parts white or pale yellowish. Limbs
black or dark brown externally, white or pale grey on the inne
surface; feet thickly fringed with black hairs; toes very thick;
soles naked, with ow, finely striated, and rounded pads.

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  • bookyear:1896
  • bookdecade:1890
  • bookcentury:1800
  • bookauthor:Lydekker__Richard__1849_1915
  • booksubject:Marsupials
  • booksubject:Monotremes
  • bookpublisher:London___E__Lloyd
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  • bookleafnumber:151
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