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 |
