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

description: <i>Pteromys volans</i> (Linnaeus, 1758). Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:64. TYPE LOCALITY: "in borealibus Europae, Asiae, et Americae." Restricted by Thomas (1911a: 149) to " Finland." Ognev (1966:268) proposed restriction to "central Sweden," but the species does not occur there (Sulkava, 1978:76). DISTRIBUTION: Palearctic taiga, from N Finland east to Chukotka (Russia); south to E Baltic shore; S Ural Mtns, Altai Mtns (Russia), Mongolia; N China; Korea; Sakhalin Isl (Russia), and Hokkaido (Japan); perhaps mtns of W China. SYNONYMS: <i>aluco</i> (Thomas, 1907); <i>anadyrensis</i> Ognev, 1940; <i>arsenjevi</i> Ognev, 1935; <i>athene</i> (Thomas, 1907); <i>betulinus</i> Serebrennikov, 1930; <i>buechneri</i> Satunin, 1903; <i>gubari</i> Ognev, 1935; <i>incanus</i> Miller, 1918; <i>ognevi</i> Stroganov, 1936; <i>orii</i> (Kuroda, 1921); <i>russicus</i> Tiedemann, 1808; <i>sibiricus</i> Desmarest, 1922; <i>turovi</i> Ognev, 1919; <i>vulgaris</i> Wagner, 1842; <i>wulungshanensis</i> (Mori, 1939). COMMENTS: Chromosomes described by Rausch and Rausch (1982).
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 pages 464-465, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353130
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