Petaurista alborufus Milne-Edwards 1870
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Petaurista alborufus Milne-Edwards 1870
Petaurista alborufus Milne-Edwards 1870, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, 70: 342.
Type Locality: Moupin [= Baoxing, Sichuan, China].
Vernacular Names: Red and White Giant Flying Squirrel.
Subspecies::
Subspecies Petaurista alborufus subsp. alborufus Milne-Edwards 1870
Subspecies Petaurista alborufus subsp. castaneus Thomas 1923
Subspecies Petaurista alborufus subsp. lena Thomas 1907
Subspecies Petaurista alborufus subsp. leucocephalus Hilzheimer 1905
Subspecies Petaurista alborufus subsp. ochraspis Thomas 1923
Distribution: Taiwan, S and C China.
Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).
Discussion: Includes lena, which was treated as a separate species by Kuntz and Ming (1970); see Jones (1975). Provisionally includes pectoralis (Corbet and Hill, 1992). Reviewed from the literature by Day (1988). Subspecies provisionally recognized by Corbet and Hill (1992). Chromosomes described by Oshida et al. (1993).
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- Is part of
- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7316535 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/91C4B717759630DB830679AF52629BE0 (URL)
- Is source of
- https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/7C12B7704470D5A9DB60038264DE2A95 (URL)
- https://www.gbif.org/species/231538347 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Milne-Edwards
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Rodentia
- Family
- Sciuridae
- Genus
- Petaurista
- Species
- alborufus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Petaurista alborufus Milne-Edwards, 1870 sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005
References
- Kuntz, R. E., and D. E. Ming. 1970. Vertebrates of Taiwan taken for parasitological and biomedical studies by U. S. Naval Medical Research Unit No. 2 Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China. Quarterly Journal of the Taiwan Museum, 23: 1 - 37.
- Corbet, G. B., and J. E. Hill. 1992. Mammals of the Indomalayan region. A systematic review. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 488 pp.
- Day, Y. - T. 1988. Subspecies and geographic variation of Petaurista alborufus and P. petaurista (Rodentia: Sciuridae). Journal of the Taiwan Museum, 41 (1): 75 - 83.