Belideus

Translingual

The subgenus Belideus was proposed in describing what is now named Petaurus breviceps - the sugar glider.

Petaurus norfolcensis — a squirrel glider, of the type species of Belideus.

Alternative forms

• Belidens (considered an error)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek βέλος (bélos, “dart, arrow”), for the species' dart-like gliding capabilities. Coined by George Robert Waterhouse, who proposed Belideus as a subgenus of Petaurus in a paper describing Petaurus (Belideus) breviceps, which he read before the Zoological Society of London on 13 November 1838 and subsequently published in May 1839. Elevated to the rank of genus by John Gould in 1842.

Proper noun

Belideus m

1. Certain small flying phalangers; sugar squirrels
   1. (obsolete) A taxonomic subgenus within the family Petauridae – Petaurus (Belideus), now recombined into Petaurus.
   2. (obsolete) A taxonomic genus within the family Petauridae – Now synonymized into Petaurus.

Hypernyms

• (obsolete genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Tetrapoda – superclass; Mammalia – class; Theria - subclass; Metatheria/Marsupialia - infraclass; Diprotodontia - order; Phalangeriformes - suborder; Phalangeroidea - superfamily; Petauridae - family

Hyponyms

• (subgenus): Petaurus (Belideus) sciureus (squirrel glider) — type species, now Petaurus norfolcensis; Petaurus (Belideus) arul — now Petaurus breviceps ariel, Petaurus (Belideus) breviceps — now Petaurus breviceps (sugar glider), Petaurus (Belideus) flaviventer — now Petaurus australis (yellow-bellied glider) or Petaurus australis australis,
• (genus): Belideus ariel (syn. Belideus arul) - now Petaurus breviceps ariel, Belideus cinereus - a synonym of Petauroides volans, Belideus flaviventer, Belideus gracilis - now Petaurus gracilis, Belideus notatus, Belideus sciureus - now Petaurus norfolcensis)

Coordinate terms

• (subgenus of Petaurus): Petaurus, Acrobata

Derived terms

• Gymnobelideus
• Hemibelideus

References

• Petaurus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Petaurus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Petaurus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• “Belideus”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1838. Volume 6 [1]
• Wildlife and Woodchips: Leadbeater's Possum: a Test Case for Sustainable Forestry. 1996. David Lindenmayer. p24.
• Gliding Mammals: Taxonomy of Living and Extinct Species. 2012. Stephen M Jackson, Richard W. Thorington, Jr.
• De Vis, C. W. 1883. Description of a New Belideus from Northern Queensland. Abstracts and Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 7:619–620 [2]
• Taxonomy of Australian Mammals. 2015. Stephen Jackson, Colin Groves. Csiro Publishing.