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GENUS Pteromys

Author:G. Cuvier, 1800.
Citation:Lecon's Anat. Comp., I: tab. 1.
Type Species:Sciurus volans Linnaeus, 1758.
Comments:Subtribe Pteromyina. Sciuropterus was previously employed for this genus by Simpson (1945:80); he believed Pteromys to be a synonym of Petaurista, but Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951:466) presented evidence for the validity of Pteromys. However, Pteromys may be the sister group to Petaurista (Oshida et al., 2000b).
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Offspring:

SPECIES momonga

SPECIES volans

SUBSPECIES volans

SUBSPECIES athene

SUBSPECIES buechneri

SUBSPECIES orii

Synonyms:

    Sciuropterus F. Cuvier, 1825

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