Biak glider

{{Short description|Species of marsupial}}

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| name = Biak glider{{MSW3 Groves | pages = 55}}

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| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Leary, T. |author2=Wright, D. |author3=Hamilton, S. |author4=Singadan, R. |author5=Menzies, J. |author6=Bonaccorso, F. |author7=Salas, L. |author8=Dickman, C. |author9=Helgen, K. |date=2016 |title=Petaurus biacensis |volume=2016 |page=e.T16732A21959734 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T16732A21959734.en |access-date=16 November 2021}}

| genus = Petaurus

| species = biacensis

| authority = Ulmer, 1940{{cite journal|last1=Ulmer Jr.|first1=Frederick A.|title=Zoological results of the Denison-Crockett South Pacific expedition for the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1937–38. Part VI. A new race of the New Guinea short-headed Flying Phalanger from Biak Island|journal=Notulae Naturae of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia|date=1940|volume=52|pages=1–3|isbn=9781604830514|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q_yFjgS3cUgC&pg=PP1}}

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| range_map = Biak_Glider_area.png

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The Biak glider (Petaurus biacensis) is a species of marsupial in the family Petauridae. It is endemic to the Schouten Islands in the western region of Papua Province, Indonesia. It was formerly considered to be a subspecies of Petaurus breviceps (sugar glider); there is still uncertainty regarding its status as a distinct species.

The Biak glider ranges in length from {{cvt|130|–|150|mm|sigfig=2}} and in weight from {{cvt|79–100|g|sigfig=2}}.{{cite news|last=Di Qual|first=Adrian|date=15 December 2008|title=Gliders @ UNSW - Biology and Conservation|publisher=The University of New South Wales}}