Petaurista philippensis (Elliot, 1839)

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 philippensis (Elliot, 1839) . Madras J. Litt. Sci., 10:217.

TYPE LOCALITY: Near Madras [ India].

DISTRIBUTION: Sri Lanka; India, north to Bombay and Rajastan, S Bihar; Burma, Thailand; S China, including Hainan and Taiwan; Indonesia ( Agrawal and Chakraborty, 1979).

SYNONYMS: annamensis Thomas, 1914; badiatus Thomas, 1925; cineraceus (Blyth, 1847); Cinderella Wroughton, 1911 ; grandis (Swinhoe, 1862); griseiventer ( Gray, 1843); hainana G. Allen, 1925; lanka Wroughton, 1911; lylei Bonhote, 1900; mergulus Thomas, 1922; miloni Bourret, 1942; nigra Wang, 1981; oral (Tickell, 1842); primrosei Thomas, 1926; reguli Thomas, 1926; rubicundus Howell, 1927; rufipes G. Allen, 1925; stockleyi Carter, 1933; venningi Thomas, 1914; yunanensis (Anderson, 1875).

COMMENTS: Formerly included in petaurista ; but see Corbet and Hill (1992), who reviewed the species.