36. Petaurista alborufus (Milne-Edwards, 1870)

Common name: Red-and-white Giant Flying Squirrel Myanmar name:

Distribution: Southern China and Northeastern Myanmar. Remarks: Currently, there are five recognized subspecies and P. a. ochraspis is regarded as Myanmar subspecies (Thorington et al. 2012). However, it is controversial because Tun Yin (1993) described two subspecies of Myanmar: Chindwin flying squirrel P. a. candidulus and Taylor ’ s flying squirrel P. a. taylori; however, the later was considered as a synonym of P. a. candidulus by Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (Jackson and Thorington 2012).