| Feather-tailed possum[1] | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
| Order: | Diprotodontia |
| Family: | Acrobatidae |
| Genus: | Distoechurus Peters, 1874 |
| Species: | D. pennatus
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| Binomial name | |
| Distoechurus pennatus (Peters, 1874)
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| Feather-tailed possum range | |
The feather-tailed possum (Distoechurus pennatus) is a species of marsupial in the family Acrobatidae. It is found in West Papua and Papua New Guinea.[2] It is not to be confused with the feathertail glider, the only other species in the family Acrobatidae.
- ^ Groves, C. P. (2005). Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 56. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. OCLC 62265494.
- ^ a b Leary, T.; Seri, L.; Wright, D.; Hamilton, S.; Helgen, K.; Singadan, R.; Menzies, J.; Allison, A.; James, R.; Aplin, K.; Dickman, C.; Salas, L.; Flannery, T. (2016). "Distoechurus pennatus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T6765A21963930. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T6765A21963930.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.