Hylopetes

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Short description: Genus of rodents

Hylopetes
Temporal range: Late Miocene to Recent
Hylopetes nigripes.jpg
Palawan flying squirrel (Hylopetes nigripes)
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Sciuridae
Subfamily: Sciurinae
Tribe: Pteromyini
Genus: Hylopetes
Thomas, 1908
Type species
Sciuropterus everetti[1]
Species

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Hylopetes is a genus of flying squirrels. There are about 10 species.[2][3]

Species include:

  • Particolored flying squirrel - H. alboniger (Hodgson, 1836)
  • Bartel's flying squirrel - H. bartelsi Chasen, 1939
  • Hainan flying squirrel - H. electilis (Allen, 1925)
  • Palawan flying squirrel - H. nigripes (Thomas, 1893)
  • Indochinese flying squirrel - H. phayrei (Blyth, 1859)
  • Jentink's flying squirrel - H. platyurus (Jentink, 1890)
  • Arrow flying squirrel - H. sagitta (Linnaeus, 1766)
  • Sipora flying squirrel - H. sipora Chasen, 1940
  • Red-cheeked flying squirrel - H. spadiceus (Blyth, 1847)
  • Sumatran flying squirrel - H. winstoni (Sody, 1949)

References

  1. ↑ Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M., eds (2005). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/biology/resources/msw3/browse.asp?id=12400340. 
  2. ↑ Rasmussen, N. L. & R. W. Thorington. 2008. Morphological Differentiation among Three Species of Flying Squirrels (Genus Hylopetes) from Southeast Asia. Journal of Mammalogy 89(5) 1296–1305.
  3. ↑ Database, Mammal Diversity (2021-08-10), Mammal Diversity Database, https://zenodo.org/record/5175993, retrieved 2021-10-09 


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