Petauroides Thomas, 1888 . Cat. Marsup. Monotr. Brit. Mus., p. 163.

TYPE SPECIES: Didelphis volans Kerr, 1792 .

SYNONYMS: Petaurista, Schoinobates, Volucella .

COMMENTS: Formerly Schoinobates Lesson, 1842 . This name was used by Lesson only for Petaurista leucogenys Temminck, 1823, a giant flying squirrel (McKay, 1982). The names Volucella and Petaurista were both preoccupied.