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--> 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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