Hodgson's giant flying squirrel | |
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Three individuals painted for the planned—but never published—book on animals of Nepal by 19th century naturalist B.H. Hodgson[1] | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Sciuridae |
Genus: | Petaurista |
Species: | P. magnificus
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Binomial name | |
Petaurista magnificus (Hodgson, 1836)
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Range in red as reported by the IUCN, but see text |
Hodgson's giant flying squirrel (Petaurista magnificus) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae.[2] This large flying squirrel lives in Himalayan forests in Asia. Like other flying squirrels, it is nocturnal and able to glide (not actually fly like a bat) long distances between trees by spreading out its patagium, skin between its limbs.[3][4]
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