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Petauridae
The
family
Petauridae
includes 11 medium-sized
possum
species
: four
striped possums
, six species of
wrist-winged gliders
in the genus
Petaurus
and
Leadbeater's possum
, which has only vestigial gliding membranes. Most of the wrist-winged gliders are native to
Australia
, most of the striped possums (genus
Dactylopsila
) to
New Guinea
, but some members of each are found on both sides of the
Torres Strait
.
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