Eupetaurus cinereus Thomas 1888

Eupetaurus cinereus Thomas 1888, J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 57: 258.

Type Locality: "Gilgit [Valley],...about 6000 feet " [Pakistan, 1829 m].

Vernacular Names: Woolly Flying Squirrel.

Distribution: High elevations from N Pakistan and Kashmir to Sikkim (India) to Tibet and possibly Yunnan (China; Agrawal and Chakraborty, 1970).

Conservation: IUCN – Endangered.

Discussion: Reviewed by McKenna (1962). In 1994, the first specimen to be found in "...over a century..." was obtained in the Gilgit district (Zahler, 1996).