Galeopterus variegatus: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Mammalia
- Order
- Dermoptera
- Family
- Cynocephalidae
- Genus
- Galeopterus
- Species
- Galeopterus variegatus
- Scientific Name
- Galeopterus variegatus
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Sunda flying lemur
The Sunda flying lemur (Galeopterus variegatus), also called Malayan flying lemur and Malayan colugo, is the sole colugo species of the genus Galeopterus. It is native to Southeast Asia from southern Myanmar, Thailand, southern Vietnam, Malaysia to Singapore and Indonesia and listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List. Although it is called "flying lemur", it cannot fly but glides among trees and is strictly arboreal. It is active at night, and feeds on soft plant parts such as young leaves, shoots, flowers, and fruits. It is a forest-dependent species.
The Sunda flying lemur is protected by national legislation. The Sunda flying lemurs are often hunted by local people with spears or other lethal equipment for various reasons such as food and fur. Habitat loss is known to occur intermittently, particularly in developing countries such as Malaysia.
...Galeopterus variegatus in languages:
- Arabic
- ليمور سوندا الطائر
- Arabic
- كولوجو سوندي
- Bokmål
- Malayskjermflyger
- Bokmål
- Kaguang
- Chinese
- 馬來亞飛狐猴
- Chinese
- 馬來亞鼯猴
- Czech
- letucha malajská
- Dutch
- Maleise Vliegende Kat
- English
- Sunda Flying Lemur
- English
- Malayan Flying Lemur
- English
- Sunda Colugo
- English
- Malayan colugo
- Finnish
- täpläkaguaani
- French
- Galéopithèque de Temminck
- German
- Malaiengleitflieger
- German
- Temminckgleitflieger
- Indonesian
- Kubung Sunda
- Italian
- Colugo della Sonda
- Japanese
- マレーヒヨケザル
- Modern Greek
- Κολούγκο της Μαλαισίας
- Portuguese
- Colugo-malaio
- Russian
- Малайский шерстокрыл
- Thai
- บ่าง
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