Travancore Flying Squirrel
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Petinomys fuscocapillus (Jerdon, 1847) |
The Travancore Flying Squirrel (Petinomys fuscocapillus) is a flying squirrel found in South India and Sri Lanka. Travancore flying squirrels were thought to be extinct but rediscovered in 1989 after a gap of 100 years.
[edit] References
- Ananthakrishnan G. (3/12/2006) Squirrels in focus, the Hindu, retrieved 6/13/2007Two flying squirrel species
- IUCN (2006) 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, retrieved 6/13/2007Petinomys fuscocapillus