Travancore Flying Squirrel

Travancore Flying Squirrel

Taxobox
name = Travancore Flying Squirrel


status = LR/lc | status_system = IUCN2.3
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
familia = Sciuridae
genus = "Petinomys"
species = "P. fuscocapillus"
binomial = "Petinomys fuscocapillus"
binomial_authority = (Jerdon, 1847)
synonyms =

The Travancore Flying Squirrel ("Petinomys fuscocapillus") is a flying squirrel found in South India and Sri Lanka. Travancore flying squirrels were thought to be extinct but rediscovered in 1989 after a gap of 100 years.

References

*Ananthakrishnan G. (3/12/2006) "Squirrels in focus", the Hindu, retrieved 6/13/2007 [http://www.hindu.com/2006/03/12/stories/2006031200752000.htm Two flying squirrel species]
*IUCN (2006) 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, retrieved 6/13/2007 [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/16734/all Petinomys fuscocapillus]


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