Complex-toothed flying squirrel

Complex-toothed flying squirrel
Temporal range: Early Pleistocene to Recent
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Sciuridae
Genus: Trogopterus
Heude, 1898
Species:
T. xanthipes
Binomial name
Trogopterus xanthipes
Synonyms[3]
  • Pteromys xanthipes A. Milne-Edwards, 1867[2]
  • Trogopterus mordax Thomas, 1914
  • Trogopterus himalaicus Thomas, 1914
  • Trogopterus edithae Thomas, 1923
  • Trogopterus minax Thomas, 1923

The complex-toothed flying squirrel (Trogopterus xanthipes) occurs in the southern Chinese provinces Hubei, Hunan, Guizhou, Sichuan, and Yunnan. The common name refers to the teeth, which differ from those of other species of flying squirrels.

  1. ^ Johnston, C.; Smith, A.T. (2016). "Trogopterus xanthipes". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22297A22271122. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T22297A22271122.en. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
  2. ^ Milne-Edwards, Alphonse (1867). "Observations sur quelques mammifères du nord de la Chine". Annales des Sciences Naturelles. 5th series. 8: 376.
  3. ^ Jackson, Stephen M.; Thorington, Richard W. Jr. (2012). Gliding Mammals: Taxonomy of Living and Extinct Species. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. Vol. 638. Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press. p. 72. doi:10.5479/si.00810282.638.1.