Hylopetes
Appearance
Hylopetes Temporal range: Late Miocene to Recent
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Palawan flying squirrel (Hylopetes nigripes) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Sciuridae |
Subfamily: | Sciurinae |
Tribe: | Pteromyini |
Genus: | Hylopetes Thomas, 1908 |
Species | |
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Hylopetes is a genus of flying squirrels. There are about 8 or 9 species.[1]
Species include:
- Particolored flying squirrel - H. alboniger (Hodgson, 1836)
- Bartel's flying squirrel - H. bartelsi Chasen, 1939
- Gray-cheeked flying squirrel - H. lepidus (Horsfield, 1823)
- Palawan flying squirrel - H. nigripes (Thomas, 1893)
- Indochinese flying squirrel - H. phayrei (Blyth, 1859)
- Jentink's flying squirrel - H. platyurus (Jentink, 1890)
- Sipora flying squirrel - H. sipora Chasen, 1940
- Red-cheeked flying squirrel - H. spadiceus (Blyth, 1847)
- Sumatran flying squirrel - H. winstoni (Sody, 1949)
References
- ^ Rasmussen, N. L. & R. W. Thorington. 2008. Morphological Differentiation among Three Species of Flying Squirrels (Genus Hylopetes) from Southeast Asia. Journal of Mammalogy 89(5) 1296–1305.