#0439 · 🦊 mammals
Greater Glider
🇳🇱 Reuzenkoeskoes ·Petauroides volans
📍 Burragorang State Recreation Area, Nattai, NSW, AU
📍 Uriarra Forest, Cotter River, ACT, AU
📍 Australia
📍 Bargo NSW 2574, Australia
📍 Queensland, AU
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © duke_n · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © David White · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © David Cook · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Pam Day · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Josh Bowell · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. Burragorang State Recreation Area, Nattai, NSW, AU:© brettmezen · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Uriarra Forest, Cotter River, ACT, AU:© brettmezen · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Australia:© Third Silence · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 9. Bargo NSW 2574, Australia:© Stephen Snow · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Queensland, AU:© semi-milker · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
The greater glider ( Petauroides volans ) is a large gliding marsupial found in Australia. It is not closely related to the Petaurus group of gliding marsupials but instead to the lemur-like ringtail possum ( Hemibelideus lemuroides ), with which it shares the subfamily Hemibelideinae.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 2,468 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Robert Kerr in 1792 (234 years ago).
- Listed as Endangered on the IUCN Red List.
fact sheet
- English
- Greater Glider
- Nederlands
- Reuzenkoeskoes
- scientific name
- Petauroides volans
- class
- Mammalia
- order
- Diprotodontia
- family
- Pseudocheiridae
- IUCN Red List
- EN · endangered
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 2,468
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1792 by Robert Kerr
IUCN in Dutch: bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Pseudocheiridae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 42783, Wikidata Q668004, GBIF 2440068, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.