Petaurista petaurista
Creators: name: Hoffmann, Robert S.
name: Anderson, Charles G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Sciuridae
Petaurista
Petaurista petaurista

description: <i>Petaurista petaurista</i> (Pallas, 1766). Mise. Zool., p. 54. TYPE LOCALITY: Not stated. Restricted by Robinson and Kloss (1918a:172, 221) to Preanger Regencies, Western Java, Indonesia. DISTRIBUTION: E Afghanistan, Kashmir and Punjab east to Assam (India); Yunnan, Sichuan, Fukien (?) (China); Burma; Thailand; Indochina; Malaysia; Sumatra, Java (Indonesia); Borneo. SYNONYMS: <i>albiventer</i> (Gray, 1834); <i>barrotti</i> Kloss, 1916; <i>batuanus</i> Miller, 1903; <i>birrelli</i> Wroughton, 1911; <i>candidula</i> Wroughton, 1919; <i>cicur</i> Robinson and Kloss, 1914; <i>fulvinus</i> Wroughton, 1911; <i>inornatus</i> (Geoffroy, 1844); <i>interceptio</i> Sody, 1949; <i>lumholtzi</i> Gyldenstolpe, 1919; <i>marchio</i> Thomas, 1908; <i>melanotis</i> (Gray, 1836); <i>mimicus</i> Miller, 1913; <i>nigrescens</i> Medway, 1965; <i>nigricaudatus</i> Robinson and Kloss, 1918; <i>nitida</i> (Desmarest, 1818); <i>nitidalula</i> Thomas, 1900; <i>penangensis</i> Robinson and Kloss, 1918; <i>rajah</i> Thomas, 1908; <i>ruftpes</i> Sody, 1925; <i>sodyi</i> Harris, 1951; <i>stellaris</i> Chasen, 1940; <i>taylori</i> Thomas, 1914; <i>terutaus</i> Lyon, 1907. COMMENTS: Reviewed by Corbet and Hill (1992), who recognized <i>philippensis</i> as distinct, and allocated many of the forms that were formerly assigned to <i>petaurista</i> to it; the two species are widely sympatric. Also reviewed by Day (1988); karyotypic variation reported by Yong and Dhaliwal (1976).
description: Published as part of <i>Robert S. Hoffmann &amp; Charles G. Anderson, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Sciuridae, pp. 419-465 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press</i> on page 463, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353130
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