Petinomys

Petinomys is a genus of flying squirrels. They are known commonly as the dwarf flying squirrels.^[1]

Petinomys Temporal range: Late Miocene - Recent
Whiskered flying squirrel (P. genibarbis)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Sciuridae
Tribe:	Pteromyini
Genus:	Petinomys Thomas, 1908
Type species
Sciuropterus lugens
Species
See text

There are approximately 8 species. They are native to Asia.^[2]

Species include:

• Basilan flying squirrel (Petinomys crinitus)
• Travancore flying squirrel (Petinomys fuscocapillus)
• Whiskered flying squirrel (Petinomys genibarbis)
• Hagen's flying squirrel (Petinomys hageni)
• Siberut flying squirrel (Petinomys lugens)
• Mindanao flying squirrel (Petinomys mindanensis)
• Temminck's flying squirrel (Petinomys setosus)
• Vordermann's flying squirrel (Petinomys vordermanni)

Notes

1. Petinomys. ITIS.
2. Singh, A. and A. Bahuguna. 2016. Molecular phylogeny of rediscovered Travancore flying squirrel (Petinomys fuscocapillus) and its conservation implications. Current Science Vol. 110, No. 4 659-66.

References

• Thorington, R. W. Jr. and R. S. Hoffman. 2005. Family Sciuridae. pp. 754–818 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.