#0448 · 🦊 mammals
Krefft's Glider
🇳🇱 Krefft's glider ·Petaurus notatus
📍 Gungahlin, ACT, Australia
📍 New South Wales, AU
📍 Melbourne VIC, Australia
📍 Cradle Mountain TAS 7306, Australia
📍 Mareeba QLD 4880, Australia
📍 Melbourne VIC, Australia
📍 Gungahlin, ACT, Australia
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Ian D B Moodie · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Deb Oliver · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Kenton · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. Gungahlin, ACT, Australia:© James Bailey · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. New South Wales, AU:© jaalittle · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. Melbourne VIC, Australia:© Ian D B Moodie · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Cradle Mountain TAS 7306, Australia:© timrudman · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Mareeba QLD 4880, Australia:© David White · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Melbourne VIC, Australia:© Ian D B Moodie · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Gungahlin, ACT, Australia:© David Cunningham · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Krefft's glider ( Petaurus notatus ) is a species of arboreal nocturnal gliding possum, a type of small marsupial. It is native to most of eastern mainland Australia and has been introduced to Tasmania. Populations of Petaurus from New Guinea and Indonesia previously classified under P. breviceps are also tentatively classified under P. notatus by the American Society of Mammalogists, but likely represent a complex of distinct species. As most captive gliders referred to as "sugar gliders" in...
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.
- 2,370 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Wilhelm Peters in 1859 (167 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Krefft's Glider
- Nederlands
- Krefft's glider
- scientific name
- Petaurus notatus
- class
- Mammalia
- order
- Diprotodontia
- family
- Petauridae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 2,370
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1859 by Wilhelm Peters
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 1118599, Wikidata Q102281603, GBIF 8534177, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.