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SPECIES Petinomys mindanensis

Author:Rabor, 1939.
Citation:Philippine Jour. Sci., 69: 390.
Common Name:Mindanao Flying Squirrel
Type Locality:Badiangon, Gingoog, Oriental Misamis Province, northern coast of Mindanao, Philippines.
Distribution:Dinagat, Siargao, and Mindanao Isls (Philippines; Heaney and Rabor, 1982).
Comments:Holotype of Hylopetes mindanensis destroyed during World War II; paratype in National Museum of Natural History is larger than P. crinitus with a round, not a flattened tail.
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    nigricaudus Sanborn, 1954

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