Eupetaurus, , McKenna, 1962

Jackson, Stephen M., Li, Quan, Wan, Tao, Li, Xue-You, Yu, Fa-Hong, Gao, Ge, He, Li-Kun, Helgen, Kristofer M. & Jiang, Xue-Long, 2022, Across the great divide: revision of the genus Eupetaurus (Sciuridae: Pteromyini), the woolly flying squirrels of the Himalayan region, with the description of two new species, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 194, pp. 502-526 : 520

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab018

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:AC33BAD0-C05F-44BF-B3CB-72D674F93CE1

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6360082

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03E587B2-3555-8E5B-7864-BD53FA54F8C8

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scientific name

Eupetaurus
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KEY TO THE SPECIES OF EUPETAURUS View in CoL

1a. Temporal ridges parallel. Rostrum wide. Upper cheek teeth round in shape; lower molars have two anterior fossettids .................................................................................................... Eupetaurus nivamons

1b. Temporal ridges converge posteriorly. Rostrum narrow. Upper cheek teeth heart shaped; lower molars have one anterior fossettid ............................................................................................................................. 2

2a. Cusps and ridges of cheek teeth are robust; P 4 and P 4 significantly larger than the following molars; lower molars are subsquare in shape; anterior fossettid short .......................................... Eupetaurus cinereus View in CoL

2b. Cusps and ridges of cheek teeth are less robust; P 4 and P 4 approximately equal in size to the following molars; lower molars subrectangular in shape; anterior fossettid long ............... Eupetaurus tibetensis

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Sciuridae

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