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--> GENUS Petaurista
SPECIES Petaurista xanthotis
Author: | Milne-Edwards, 1872. | Citation: | Rech. Hist. Nat. Mammifères: 301. | Common Name: | Chinese Giant Flying Squirrel | Type Locality: | Moupin [= Baoxing, Sichuan, China]. | Distribution: | Mountains of W China (Sichuan, Yunnan, E Tibet, Gansu). | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | Comments: | Formerly included in leucogenys; but see Corbet and Hill (1992). |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
buechneri (Matschie, 1907) filchnerinae (Matschie, 1907)
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