Pteromys volans (Linnaeus, 1758)

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 : 464-465

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.7353130

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7287947

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scientific name

Pteromys volans (Linnaeus, 1758)
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Pteromys volans (Linnaeus, 1758) View in CoL . Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:64.

TYPE LOCALITY: "in borealibus Europae, Asiae, et Americae." Restricted by Thomas (1911a: 149) to " Finland." Ognev (1966:268) proposed restriction to "central Sweden," but the species does not occur there ( Sulkava, 1978:76) .

DISTRIBUTION: Palearctic taiga, from N Finland east to Chukotka ( Russia); south to E Baltic shore; S Ural Mtns, Altai Mtns ( Russia), Mongolia; N China; Korea; Sakhalin Isl ( Russia), and Hokkaido ( Japan); perhaps mtns of W China.

SYNONYMS: aluco (Thomas, 1907); anadyrensis Ognev, 1940; arsenjevi Ognev, 1935; athene (Thomas, 1907); betulinus Serebrennikov, 1930; buechneri Satunin, 1903; gubari Ognev, 1935; incanus Miller, 1918; ognevi Stroganov, 1936; orii (Kuroda, 1921); russicus Tiedemann, 1808; sibiricus Desmarest, 1922 ; turovi Ognev, 1919; vulgaris Wagner, 1842 ; wulungshanensis (Mori, 1939).

COMMENTS: Chromosomes described by Rausch and Rausch (1982).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Sciuridae

Genus

Pteromys

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Pteromys volans (Linnaeus, 1758)

Robert S. Hoffmann & Charles G. Anderson 1993
1993
Loc

Pteromys volans (Linnaeus, 1758)

Linnaeus 1758: 64
1758
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