Hylopetes
| Hylopetes Temporal range: Late Miocene to Recent | |
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| Palawan flying squirrel (Hylopetes nigripes) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Sciuridae |
| Subfamily: | Sciurinae |
| Tribe: | Pteromyini |
| Genus: | Hylopetes Thomas, 1908 |
| Type species | |
| Sciuropterus everetti[1] | |
| Species | |
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Hylopetes is a genus of flying squirrels. There are about 10 species.[2][3]
Species include:
- Particolored flying squirrel - H. alboniger (Hodgson, 1836)
- Bartel's flying squirrel - H. bartelsi Chasen, 1939
- Hainan flying squirrel - H. electilis (Allen, 1925)
- Palawan flying squirrel - H. nigripes (Thomas, 1893)
- Indochinese flying squirrel - H. phayrei (Blyth, 1859)
- Jentink's flying squirrel - H. platyurus (Jentink, 1890)
- Arrow flying squirrel - H. sagitta (Linnaeus, 1766)
- Sipora flying squirrel - H. sipora Chasen, 1940
- Red-cheeked flying squirrel - H. spadiceus (Blyth, 1847)
- Sumatran flying squirrel - H. winstoni (Sody, 1949)
References
- ^ Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M., eds. (2005). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Database, Mammal Diversity (2021-08-10), Mammal Diversity Database, retrieved 2021-10-09
