Petaurista philippensis Elliot 1839

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 : 772

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.7316535

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11331735

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scientific name

Petaurista philippensis Elliot 1839
status

 

Petaurista philippensis Elliot 1839 View in CoL

Petaurista philippensis Elliot 1839 View in CoL , Madras J. Litt. Sci., Vol. 10: 217.

Type Locality: Near Madras [ India].

Vernacular Names: Indian Giant Flying Squirrel.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Petaurista philippensis subsp. philippensis Elliot 1839

Subspecies Petaurista philippensis subsp. annamensis Thomas 1914

Subspecies Petaurista philippensis subsp. cineraceus Blyth 1847

Subspecies Petaurista philippensis subsp. grandis Swinhoe 1863

Subspecies Petaurista philippensis subsp. lylei Bonhote 1900

Subspecies Petaurista philippensis subsp. mergulus Thomas 1922

Subspecies Petaurista philippensis subsp. yunanensis Anderson 1875

Distribution: Sri Lanka; India, north to Bombay and Rajastan, S Bihar; Burma, Thailand; S China, including Hainan and Taiwan.

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Formerly included in petaurista ; but see Corbet and Hill (1992), who reviewed the species. Subspecies listed are those recognized by Corbet and Hill (1992), who note that further work is needed on the geographic variation of this species.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Sciuridae

SubFamily

Sciurinae

Tribe

Pteromyini

Genus

Petaurista

Loc

Petaurista philippensis Elliot 1839

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn 2005
2005
Loc

Petaurista philippensis

Elliot 1839: 217
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