10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PETAURINE»
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An introduction to natural history: adapted to domestic and ...
The Petaurine Opossum is also a native of New Holland, and is still more
beautiful than the preceding species : it is about twenty-two inches in length from
flte nose to the tail, which is twenty inches long. The Opossum is about the size of
a ...
William Jillard Hort, 1822
2
Zoological Lectures Delivered at the Royal Institution in ...
A still more elegant kind of New Holland Opossum is the Petaurine Opossum,
often measuring more than a yard in length from the nose to the tip of the tail. The
Petaurine Opossum has the general appearance of a Flying Squirrel, being ...
3
Australian Journal of Zoology
The petaurine fossil record is similarly sparse, although two petaurines have
been reported from early Pliocene deposits near Hamilton, Victoria. These are
claimed to be similar to the living species P. norfolcensis and P. breviceps (
Turnbull et ...
4
Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases ...
i. p. 93: “A still more elegant kind of New Holland opossum is the petaurine
opossum . . . has the general appearance ofa flying-squirrel, being furnished with
a broad furry membrane from the fore to the hind feet, by the help of which it
springs ...
Edward Ellis Morris, 2011
5
General zoology: or Systematic natural history
It may be added, that a strong general similarity takes place between this animal
and the Petaurine Opossum (Didelphis Petaurus), which, in all probability, is also
a native of many of the Indian isles, as well as of New Holland, and may have ...
George Shaw, James Francis Stephens, 1801
6
The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization
Tail round. 511. 1. P. Taguanoides (Petaurine Opossum.) Fur very soft ; gray-
brown, or shining-brown above ; throat and chest white; tail brown, yellowish-
brown at the base. Didelphis Petaurus, Shaw, Gm. Zool. Petaurus Tagua- noides,
Desm ...
baron Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, 1827
7
A Classified Index and Synopsis of the Animal Kingdom: ...
197 petaurine, v. 198 Philander, v. 188 Quica, v. 187 Seba's, v. 190 short-tailed,
iii. 33 ; v. 190 spotted, v. 193 squirrel, v. 200 thick-tailed, v. 189 ursine, iii. 37. 52
Virginian, iii. 24; v. 186 Viverrine, v. 194 vulpine, v. 197 white-tailed, v. 198 woolly
...
Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, 2012
8
Gliding Mammals of the World
Of all the species then ofthis genus the animal herefigured is the largest and most
elegant. Several years later, in 1800, Shaw noted that 'the size, colours, and form,
of the Petaurine or great flying opossum of New Holland, conspire to ...
Stephen Matthew Jackson, 2012
9
Revision of the Ektopodontidae (Mammalia, Marsupialia, ...
It must be noted, however, that so do fossil phalangerids, and some burramyids,
as well as petaurine (and certainly pseudocheirine) petaurids. In fact, one
observation is that dental complexities of all forms seem to be more pervasive in
...
Michael O. Woodburne, William Alvin Clemens, 1986
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Evolutionary History of the Marsupials and an Analysis of ...
Frederick S. Szalay. Figure 8.30. Comparison of left A B C calcanea in plantar
view of rgpggggptf petaurine taxa shown ~ . . For abbreviations see a e 1.1.
Scales = 1 rnm. 0. "1. y. \ C a C u I Pseudochirus a. Schoinobates Petaurus a.
Frederick S. Szalay, 2006
