Leadbeater's possum

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phylum Chordata Leadbeater's possum is an endangered possum restricted to small pockets of remaining old growth mountain ash forests in the central highlands of Victoria (Australia) north-east of Melbourne. It is a primitive, relict, non-gliding petaurid and, as the only species in the Gymnobelideus genus, represents an ancestral species.

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class Mammalia
infraclass metatheria
order Diprotodontia
family Petauridae
genus Gymnobelideus
species G. leadbeateri