Petaurista petaurista (Pallas, 1766)

Robert S. Hoffmann & Charles G. Anderson, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Sciuridae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 419-465 : 463

Petaurista petaurista (Pallas, 1766) . Mise. Zool., p. 54.

TYPE LOCALITY: Not stated. Restricted by Robinson and Kloss (1918a:172, 221) to Preanger Regencies, Western Java, Indonesia .

DISTRIBUTION: E Afghanistan, Kashmir and Punjab east to Assam ( India); Yunnan, Sichuan, Fukien (?) ( China); Burma; Thailand; Indochina; Malaysia; Sumatra, Java ( Indonesia); Borneo.

SYNONYMS: albiventer (Gray, 1834); barrotti Kloss, 1916; batuanus Miller, 1903; birrelli Wroughton, 1911; candidula Wroughton, 1919; cicur Robinson and Kloss, 1914; fulvinus Wroughton, 1911; inornatus (Geoffroy, 1844) ; interceptio Sody, 1949; lumholtzi Gyldenstolpe, 1919; marchio Thomas, 1908; melanotis (Gray, 1836) ; mimicus Miller, 1913; nigrescens Medway, 1965; nigricaudatus Robinson and Kloss, 1918; nitida (Desmarest, 1818); nitidalula Thomas, 1900; penangensis Robinson and Kloss, 1918; rajah Thomas, 1908; ruftpes Sody, 1925; sodyi Harris, 1951; stellaris Chasen, 1940; taylori Thomas, 1914; terutaus Lyon, 1907.

COMMENTS: Reviewed by Corbet and Hill (1992), who recognized philippensis as distinct, and allocated many of the forms that were formerly assigned to petaurista to it; the two species are widely sympatric. Also reviewed by Day (1988); karyotypic variation reported by Yong and Dhaliwal (1976).