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--> TRIBE Pteromyini
GENUS Pteromys
Author: | G. Cuvier, 1800. | Citation: | Lecon's Anat. Comp., I: tab. 1. | Type Species: | Sciurus volans Linnaeus, 1758. | Comments: | Subtribe Pteromyina. Sciuropterus was previously employed for this genus by Simpson (1945:80); he believed Pteromys to be a synonym of Petaurista, but Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951:466) presented evidence for the validity of Pteromys. However, Pteromys may be the sister group to Petaurista (Oshida et al., 2000b). |
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