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Petaurista alborufus
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Description
36. Petaurista alborufus (Milne-Edwards, 1870)
Common name: Red-and-white Giant Flying Squirrel Myanmar name:
Distribution: Southern China and Northeastern Myanmar. Remarks: Currently, there are five recognized subspecies and P. a. ochraspis is regarded as Myanmar subspecies (Thorington et al. 2012). However, it is controversial because Tun Yin (1993) described two subspecies of Myanmar: Chindwin flying squirrel P. a. candidulus and Taylor ’ s flying squirrel P. a. taylori; however, the later was considered as a synonym of P. a. candidulus by Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (Jackson and Thorington 2012).
Notes
Published as part of Thu, Aye Myat, Lwin, Ye Htet & Quan, Rui-Chang, 2024, Mammals of Myanmar: an annotated checklist, pp. 147-197 in Mammalia (Warsaw, Poland) (Warsaw, Poland) 88 (3) on page 156, DOI: 10.1515/mammalia-2023-0098, http://zenodo.org/record/13913939
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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. Thu, Lwin & Quan, 2024
References
- Thorington, R. W., Jr., Koprowski, J. L., Steele, M. A., and Whatton, J. F. (2012). Squirrels of the world. The John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
- Tun Yin, U (1993). Wild mammals of Myanmar. U Soe Kyi, Forest Department, Myanmar.
- Jackson, S. M. and Thorington, R. W., Jr. (2012). Gliding mammals: taxonomy of living and extinct species. In: Smithsonian contributions to zoology, Vol. 638. Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, Washington DC.