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

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Pteromys volans (Linnaeus 1758)
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[Sciurus] volans Linnaeus 1758 , Syst. Nat., 10th ed., Vol. 1: 64 View Cited Treatment .

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).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Sciuridae

Genus

Pteromys

Loc

Pteromys volans (Linnaeus 1758)

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

[Sciurus] volans

Linnaeus 1758: 64
1758
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