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SPECIES Hylopetes platyurus

Author:Jentink, 1890.
Citation:Notes Leyden Museum, 12: 147.
Common Name:Jentink’s Flying Squirrel
Type Locality:Deli, NE Sumatra.
Distribution:Sumatra, Malaysia.
Comments:Formerly included in lepidus (Hill, 1962c; Pavlinov et al., 1995a), but see Thorington et al. (1996). Corbet and Hill (1992) listed aurantiacus as a synonym, here placed in H. spadiceus.
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