Petinomys is a genus of flying squirrels. They are known commonly as the dwarf flying squirrels.[1]
| Petinomys Temporal range: Late Miocene - Recent
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| Whiskered flying squirrel (P. genibarbis) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Sciuridae |
| Tribe: | Pteromyini |
| Genus: | Petinomys Thomas, 1908 |
| Type species | |
| Sciuropterus lugens | |
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There are approximately 8 species. They are native to Asia.[2]
Species include:
- Basilan flying squirrel (Petinomys crinitus)
- Travancore flying squirrel (Petinomys fuscocapillus)
- Whiskered flying squirrel (Petinomys genibarbis)
- Hagen's flying squirrel (Petinomys hageni)
- Siberut flying squirrel (Petinomys lugens)
- Mindanao flying squirrel (Petinomys mindanensis)
- Temminck's flying squirrel (Petinomys setosus)
- Vordermann's flying squirrel (Petinomys vordermanni)
Notes
edit- ^ Petinomys. ITIS.
- ^ Singh, A. and A. Bahuguna. 2016. Molecular phylogeny of rediscovered Travancore flying squirrel (Petinomys fuscocapillus) and its conservation implications. Current Science Vol. 110, No. 4 659-66.
References
edit- Thorington, R. W. Jr. and R. S. Hoffman. 2005. Family Sciuridae. pp. 754–818 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
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