40. Petaurista petaurista (Pallas, 1766)

Common name: Red Giant Flying Squirrel

Myanmar name:

Distribution: Afghanistan, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Nepal and Thailand. In Myanmar, recorded in Lampi Marine NP; Bisi et al. 2019, Indawgyi Wetland WS and Proposed Imawbum NP; Nijman 2015.

Remarks: Eighteen subspecies are recognized: P. p. candidula and P. p. taylori are considered as the subspecies that distributed in Kindat, Chin Hills and Southern Tanintharyi Region (Thorington et al. 2012).