Large black flying squirrel
Genus of rodents
Large black flying squirrel | |
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Black flying squirrel, Aeromys tephromelas | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Sciuridae |
Subfamily: | Sciurinae |
Tribe: | Pteromyini |
Genus: | Aeromys Robinson & Kloss, 1915 |
Type species | |
Pteromys tephromelas | |
Species | |
Aeromys tephromelas |
Large black flying squirrel[citation needed] (genus Aeromys) form a taxon of squirrels under the tribe Pteromyini. They are only found in South-east Asia.
Species
There are two species of large black flying squirrel:
- Black flying squirrel, Aeromys tephromelas
- Thomas's flying squirrel, Aeromys thomasi
References
- 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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- Northern Chinese flying squirrel (A. melanopterus)
- Black flying squirrel (A. tephromelas)
- Thomas's flying squirrel (A. thomasi)
- Hairy-footed flying squirrel (B. pearsonii)
- Namdapha flying squirrel (B. biswasi)
- Kashmir flying squirrel (E. fimbriatus)
- Woolly flying squirrel (E. cinereus)
- Southern flying squirrel (G. volans)
- Northern flying squirrel (G. sabrinus)
- Particolored flying squirrel H. alboniger)
- Afghan flying squirrel (H. baberi)
- Bartel's flying squirrel (H. bartelsi)
- Gray-cheeked flying squirrel (H. lepidus)
- Palawan flying squirrel (H. nigripes)
- Indochinese flying squirrel (H. phayrei)
- Jentink's flying squirrel (H. platyurus)
- Sipora flying squirrel (H. sipora)
- Red-cheeked flying squirrel (H. spadiceus)
- Sumatran flying squirrel (H. winstoni)
- Javanese flying squirrel (I. horsfieldi)
- Mentawi flying squirrel (I. sipora)
- Lesser pygmy flying squirrel (P. emiliae)
- Hose's pygmy flying squirrel (P. hosei)
- Selangor pygmy flying squirrel (P. kinlochii)
- Red and white giant flying squirrel (P. alborufus)
- Spotted giant flying squirrel (P. elegans)
- Hodgson's giant flying squirrel (P. magnificus)
- Bhutan giant flying squirrel (P. nobilis)
- Indian giant flying squirrel (P. philippensis)
- Chinese giant flying squirrel (P. xanthotis)
- Japanese giant flying squirrel (P. leucogenys)
- Red giant flying squirrel (P. petaurista)
- Basilan flying squirrel (P. crinitus)
- Travancore flying squirrel (P. fuscocapillus)
- Whiskered flying squirrel (P. genibarbis)
- Hagen's flying squirrel (P. hageni)
- Siberut flying squirrel (P. lugens)
- Mindanao flying squirrel (P. mindanensis)
- Arrow flying squirrel (P. sagitta)
- Temminck's flying squirrel (P. setosus)
- Vordermann's flying squirrel (P. vordermanni)
- Siberian flying squirrel (P. volans)
- Japanese dwarf flying squirrel (P. momonga)
- Smoky flying squirrel (P. pulverulentus)
- Complex-toothed flying squirrel (T. xanthipes)