Mahogany glider

Weight

310 g – 418.5 gsrc for Weight

Length

Not recorded

Lifespan

13.4 yearssrc for Lifespan

Diet

Omnivoresrc for Diet

Longest recorded lifespan

14.8 years

Main food

Not recorded

Habitat

Not recorded

Gestation

20 dayssrc for Gestation

Young per litter or clutch

1.6src for Young per litter or clutch

Age at maturity

15 monthssrc for Age at maturity

Litters or clutches a year

1.28src for Litters or clutches a year

Active

At night (nocturnal)src for Active

Lifestyle

Arborealsrc for Lifestyle

Conservation status

Endangered (IUCN)src for Conservation status

Countries on record

1 countrysrc for Countries on record

The mahogany glider is listed for 1 country.

The same countries as a list

1. Australia

Why a country list is not a range map

Listed by: ITIS (scope: global), through the Catalogue of Life.

The mahogany glider is listed as Endangered on the IUCN Red List: it faces a very high risk of extinction in the wild.

1. LCLeast Concern
2. NTNear Threatened
3. VUVulnerable
4. ENEndangered
5. CRCritically Endangered
6. EWExtinct in the Wild
7. EXExtinct

Category via Wikidata (CC0). Find the full assessment on the IUCN Red List. See all Endangered species. What the categories mean.

1. kingdomAnimalia
2. phylumChordata
3. classMammalia
4. orderDiprotodontia
5. familyPetauridae
6. genusPetaurus
7. SpeciesPetaurus gracilis (De Vis, 1883)

Synonyms Belideus gracilis

Catalogue of LifeWikipediaiNaturalistWikidataIUCN Red List

LC, Least Concern

Sugar glider

Petaurus breviceps

Petauridae

VU, Vulnerable

Yellow-bellied glider

Petaurus australis

Petauridae

LC, Least Concern

Squirrel glider

Petaurus norfolcensis

Petauridae

LC, Least Concern

B

Biak glider

Petaurus biacensis

PetauridaeNo free photo yet

CR, Critically Endangered

N

Northern glider

Petaurus abidi

PetauridaeNo free photo yet

P

Petaurus adelynhoserae

PetauridaeNo free photo yet

CompareMahogany glider vs Sugar gliderMahogany glider vs Yellow-bellied gliderMahogany glider vs Squirrel gliderMahogany glider vs Biak glider

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@misc{mahogany_glider_2026,
  title = {Mahogany glider (Petaurus gracilis)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/mahogany-glider},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}