Pteromys G. Cuvier 1800

Pteromys G. Cuvier 1800, Lecon's Anat. Comp., Part I: tab. 1.

Type Species: Sciurus volans Linnaeus 1758

Synonyms: Sciuropterus F. Cuvier 1825 .

Species and subspecies: 2 species with 4 subspecies:

Species Pteromys momonga Temminck 1844

Species Pteromys volans (Linnaeus 1758)

Subspecies Pteromys volans subsp. volans Linnaeus 1758

Subspecies Pteromys volans subsp. athene Thomas 1907

Subspecies Pteromys volans subsp. buechneri Satunin 1903

Subspecies Pteromys volans subsp. orii Kuroda 1921

Discussion: Subtribe Pteromyina . Sciuropterus was previously employed for this genus by Simpson (1945:80); he believed Pteromys to be a synonym of Petaurista, but Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951:466) presented evidence for the validity of Pteromys . However, Pteromys may be the sister group to Petaurista (Oshida et al., 2000 b) .