Hylopetes
Temporal range: Late Miocene to Recent
Palawan flying squirrel (Hylopetes nigripes)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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:

References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ Database, Mammal Diversity (2021-08-10), Mammal Diversity Database, retrieved 2021-10-09


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