Petaurista elegans Müller 1840

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Sciuridae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 754-818 : 771

Petaurista elegans Müller 1840

Petaurista elegans Müller 1840 , in: Temminck, Verh. Nat. Gesch. Nederland. Overz. Bezitt., Zool., Zoogd. Indisch. Archipel.: 35.

Type Locality: " Java " [ Indonesia].

Vernacular Names: Spotted Giant Flying Squirrel.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Petaurista elegans subsp. elegans Müller 1840

Subspecies Petaurista elegans subsp. banksi Chasen 1933

Subspecies Petaurista elegans subsp. caniceps Gray 1842

Subspecies Petaurista elegans subsp. marica Thomas 1912

Subspecies Petaurista elegans subsp. punctatus Gray 1846

Subspecies Petaurista elegans subsp. sumatrana Kloss 1921

Subspecies Petaurista elegans subsp. sybilla Thomas and Wroughton 1916

Distribution: Nepal, Sikkim ( India), Sichuan and Yunnan ( China), N and W Burma, Laos, Tonkin ( Vietnam), Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java ( Indonesia), Borneo.

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Includes clarkei and marica; see Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1966:460-461). This species was described in greater detail by Schlegel and Müller, in Temminck, Verh. Nat. Gesch. Nederland. Overz. Bezitt., Zool., Mammalia, pp. 107, 112 [1845]. Corbet and Hill (1992) considered caniceps from Nepal, Sikkim, N Burma, and W China, and sybilla from a few localities in Burma and W China, as distinct species, sympatric with elegans in W Yunnan ( China).