Hylopetes

Short description: Genus of rodents

Hylopetes

Temporal range: Late Miocene to Recent

Palawan flying squirrel (Hylopetes nigripes)
Scientific classification
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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