Pygmy Possum Hybrids
Family Burramyidae
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EUGENE M. MCCARTHY, PHD GENETICS
Western Pygmy PossumCercartetus nanus
To the author's knowledge, the following is the only information bearing on hybridization in this family:
Cercartetus concinnus [Western Pygmy Possum]
× Cercartetus nanus [Eastern Pygmy Possum] These possums have a parapatric contact zone near Adelaide (southeastern Australia). Parapatric contact zones are often a sign of hybridization detected before hybridization itself is actually detected, but the author has not as yet encountered any explicit report of hybridization. Smith and Hume 1984 (p. 583).
By the same author: Handbook of Avian Hybrids of the World, Oxford University Press (2006).
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