Hylopetes
Hylopetes is a genus of flying squirrels. There are about 8 or 9 species.[1]
| Hylopetes Temporal range: Late Miocene to Recent | |
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| Palawan flying squirrel (Hylopetes nigripes) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Sciuridae |
| Subfamily: | Sciurinae |
| Tribe: | Pteromyini |
| Genus: | Hylopetes Thomas, 1908 |
| Species | |
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Species include:
- Particolored flying squirrel - H. alboniger (Hodgson, 1836)
- Bartel's flying squirrel - H. bartelsi Chasen, 1939
- Gray-cheeked flying squirrel - H. lepidus (Horsfield, 1823)
- Palawan flying squirrel - H. nigripes (Thomas, 1893)
- Indochinese flying squirrel - H. phayrei (Blyth, 1859)
- Jentink's flying squirrel - H. platyurus (Jentink, 1890)
- Sipora flying squirrel - H. sipora Chasen, 1940
- Red-cheeked flying squirrel - H. spadiceus (Blyth, 1847)
- Sumatran flying squirrel - H. winstoni (Sody, 1949)
References
- 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.
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