Leadbeater's possum

Leadbeater's possum (Gymnobelideus leadbeateri) is a possum lairgely restrictit tae smaw pockets o alpine ash, muntain ash an snaw gum forests in the Central Highlands o Victoria, Australie, north-east o Melbourne.^[3] It is primitive, relict, an nan-glidin, an, as the anerly species in the petaurid genus Gymnobelideus, represents a ancestral fuirm. Umwhile, Leadbeater's possums wur moderately common athin the vera smaw auries they inhabitit; their requirement for year-roond fuid supplies an tree-holes tae tak refuge in durin the day restricts thaim tae mixed-age wet sclerophyll forest wi a dense mid-story o Acacia. The species wis namit efter John Leadbeater, the then taxidermist at the Museum Victoria.^[4] They also go by the common name of fairy possum.^[5] On 2 Mairch 1971,^[6] the State of Victoria made the Leadbeater's possum its faunal emblem.^[7]

Leadbeater's possum[1]
Taxidermy specimen
Conservation status
Creetically Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)[2]
Scientific classification
Kinrick:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Cless:	Mammalia
Infracless:	Marsupialia
Order:	Diprotodontia
Faimily:	Petauridae
Genus:	Gymnobelideus
Species:	G. leadbeateri
Binomial name
Gymnobelideus leadbeateri McCoy, 1867
Leadbeater's possum range