Petaurista magnificus: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Mammalia
- Order
- Rodentia
- Family
- Sciuridae
- Genus
- Petaurista
- Species
- Petaurista magnificus
- Scientific Name
- Petaurista magnificus
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Hodgson's giant flying squirrel
Hodgson's giant flying squirrel (Petaurista magnificus) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. 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.
...Petaurista magnificus in languages:
- Czech
- poletucha Hogdsonova
- English
- Hodgson's Giant Flying Squirrel
- Finnish
- nepalinisoliituri
- German
- Hodgsonriesengleithörnchen
- Polish
- wielkolot wspaniały
- Russian
- Летяга Ходжсона
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Parent Taxon
Sibling 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