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SPECIES Belomys pearsonii

Author:Gray, 1842.
Citation:Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., [ser. 1], 10: 263.
Common Name:Hairy-footed Flying Squirrel
Type Locality:"India, [Assam,] Dargellan" (= Darjeeling).
Distribution:Sikkim and Assam (India) to Hunan, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi, Hainan, Taiwan (China); Bhutan; Indochina, and N Burma (see Agrawal and Chakraborty, 1979).
Status:IUCN – Lower Risk (nt).
Comments:Subspecies tentatively recognized by Corbet and Hill (1992), who synonymized this monotypic genus with Trogopterus.
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SUBSPECIES pearsonii

SUBSPECIES blandus

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