Pteromys volans (Linnaeus 1758)

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 : 774

Pteromys volans (Linnaeus 1758)

[Sciurus] volans Linnaeus 1758 , Syst. Nat., 10th ed., Vol. 1: 64 .

Type Locality: "in borealibus Europae, Asiae, et Americae." Restricted by Thomas (1911 a:149) to " Finland." Ognev (1966:268) proposed restriction to "central Sweden," but the species does not occur there ( Sulkava, 1978:76) .

Vernacular Names: Siberian Flying Squirrel.

Subspecies: :

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

Distribution: Palearctic taiga, from N Finland east to Chukotka ( Russia); south to E Baltic shore; S Ural Mtns, Altai Mtns ( Russia), Mongolia; N China; Korea; Sakhalin Isl ( Russia), and Hokkaido ( Japan); perhaps mtns of W China.

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (nt).

Discussion: Chromosomes described by Rausch and Rausch (1982), and Oshida et al. (2000 a). Subspecies follow Corbet (1978c).