Petaurista: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Mammalia
- Order
- Rodentia
- Family
- Sciuridae
- Genus
- Petaurista
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Petaurista
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Petaurista
Petaurista is a genus of rodent in the family Sciuridae. They are large to very large flying squirrels found in forests and other wooded habitats in southern and eastern Asia.
Like other flying squirrels, they are mostly nocturnal and able to glide (not actually fly like a bat) long distances between trees by spreading out their patagium, skin between their limbs. They feed primarily on plant material, but will also take small animals such as insects.
...Petaurista in languages:
- Bokmål
- Kjempeflygeekorn
- Chinese
- 鼯鼠屬
- English
- Asian Giant Flying Squirrels
- English
- Asiatic Giant Flying Squirrels
- English
- Giant Flying Squirrels
- Finnish
- isoliiturit
- German
- Riesengleithörnchen
- Polish
- wielkolot
- Russian
- Гигантские летяги
- Sinhala
- ආසියානු මහා හම්බාවන්
- Thai
- สกุล กระรอกบินยักษ์เอเชีย
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
Child Taxa
- Petaurista albiventer
- Petaurista alborufus
- Petaurista caniceps
- Petaurista elegans
- Petaurista grandis
- Petaurista hainana
- Petaurista lena
- Petaurista leucogenys
- Petaurista magnificus
- Petaurista marica
- Petaurista mechukaensis
- Petaurista mishmiensis
- Petaurista nobilis
- Petaurista petaurista
- Petaurista philippensis
- Petaurista siangensis
- Petaurista sybilla
- Petaurista xanthotis
- Petaurista yunanensis































