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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER SCIUROMORPHA
--> FAMILY Sciuridae
--> SUBFAMILY Sciurinae
--> TRIBE Pteromyini
--> GENUS Eupetaurus
SPECIES Eupetaurus cinereus
| Author: | Thomas, 1888. | | Citation: | J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 57: 258. | | Common Name: | Woolly Flying Squirrel | | Type Locality: | "Gilgit [Valley],...about 6000 feet" [Pakistan, 1829 m]. | | Distribution: | High elevations from N Pakistan and Kashmir to Sikkim (India) to Tibet and possibly Yunnan (China; Agrawal and Chakraborty, 1970). | | Status: | IUCN – Endangered. | | Comments: | Reviewed by McKenna (1962). In 1994, the first specimen to be found in "...over a century..." was obtained in the Gilgit district (Zahler, 1996). |
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