Grey-Headed Flying-Fox
Scientific name : Pteropus poliocephalus
Other names: Grey-headed fruit bat
Status : Vulnerable
Sugar Glider
Scientific name : Petaurus breviceps
Other names: Indigenous names from Australia and PNG, including Lumbalk and Yeyang
Status : Least Concern
Tasmanian Pademelon
Scientific name : Thylogale billardierii
Other names: Rufous-bellied pademelon, Red-bellied Pademelon
Status : Least Concern
Squirrel Glider
Scientific name : Petaurus norfolcensis
Status : Vulnerable (NSW), Threatened (VIC), Endangered (SA), Common (QLD)
Brush-tailed Bettong
Scientific name : Bettongia penicillata ogilbyi
Other names: Woylie (from indigenous name Walyu, Nyungar language), Brush-tailed Rat Kangaroo
Status : Critically Endangered (<15,000 individuals)
Fat-tailed Dunnart
Scientific name : Sminthopsis crassicaudata
Other names: Narrow-footed marsupial mouse (applied to all dunnart species)
Status : Least concern, Near Threatened in Victoria
Long-nosed Potoroo
Scientific name : Potorous tridactylus
Other names: Byjuke
Status : Vulnerable. Common in Tasmania but far rarer on the mainland.
Rufous Bettong
Scientific name : Aepyprymnus rufescens
Other names: Rufous Rat-kangaroo
Status : Locally common (northern population). Population along Murray River now regionally extinct.
Common Brushtail Possum
Scientific name : Trichosurus vulpecula
Other names: Brushtail possum, Brush-tailed possum
Status : Least concern, although may be decreasing in some areas
Reptile Encounters would like to acknowledge the Wurundjeri people who are the Traditional Custodians of this Land.
We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present of the Kulin Nation and extend that respect to other Indigenous Australians.