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Petaurista nobilis
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Description
Petaurista nobilis (Gray, 1842). Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 10:263.
TYPE LOCALITY: " India, Dargellan" [Darjeeling].
DISTRIBUTION: C Nepal, Sikkim (India), Bhutan.
SYNONYMS: chrysotrix (Hodgson, 1844); singhei Saha, 1977.
COMMENTS: Formerly included in magnificus; elevated to specific rank by Ghose and Saha (1981:95) and Corbet and Hill (1992).
Notes
Published as part of Robert S. Hoffmann & 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 on pages 462-463, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353130
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- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7353130 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFD6F970FF94FFA5CB40AC773518FF86 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Family
- Sciuridae
- Genus
- Petaurista
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Rodentia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Gray
- Species
- nobilis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Petaurista nobilis (Gray, 1842) sec. Hoffmann & Anderson, 1993
References
- Hodgson, B. H. 1844. Classified catalogue of mammals of Nepal. Calcutta Journal of Natural History, 4: 284 - 294.
- Ghose, R. K., and S. S. Saha. 1981. Taxonomic review of Hodgson's giant flying squirrel, Petaurista magnificus (Hodgson) (Sciuridae: Rodentia), with description of a new subspecies from Darjeeling District, West Bengal, India. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, 78: 93 - 102.
- Corbet, G. B., and J. E. Hill. 1992. Mammals of the Indomalayan region. A systematic review. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 488 pp.