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--> FAMILY Sciuridae
--> SUBFAMILY Sciurinae
--> TRIBE Pteromyini
--> GENUS Glaucomys
SPECIES Glaucomys volans
| Author: | Linnaeus, 1758. | | Citation: | Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1: 63. | | Common Name: | Southern Flying Squirrel | | Type Locality: | "Virginia, Mexico"; restricted by Elliot (1901:109) to "Virginia (U.S.A.)". | | Distribution: | Texas, Kansas, and Minnesota (USA) to Nova Scotia (Canada) and E USA; montane populations scattered from NW Mexico to Honduras. | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc) as G. volans, Not Evaluated as G. v. goldmani, G. v. guerreroensis, and G. v. oaxacensis. | | Comments: | Reviewed by Dolan and Carter (1973, Mammalian Species, 78). For systematics and distribution of Mesoamerican populations, see Diersing (1980a) and Braun (1988). Subspecies according to Hall (1981). A phylogeographic study using mitochondrial DNA showed little divergence between two subspecies (Arbogast 1999). |
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