Yunnan Woolly Flying Squirrel

description

Z o o b a n k r e g i s t r a t i o n: u r n: l s i d: z o o b a n k. org: act: BE 1 BF 61 A- 769 A- 42 D 6 - 8 B 11 - 56 ECC 0 A 871 C 8 Holotype: KIZ 034190 (field number BS 1601), young adult female, skin, skull, and body preserved in ethanol, collected in January 2017. Sequences for 12 S (rRNA) (GenBank no. MW 699658), 16 S (GenBank no. MW 699662), Cytb (GenBank no. MW 699650) and IRBP (GenBank no. MW 699654) are deposited in GenBank. Type locality: The holotype was collected on Biluo Snow Mountain, behind the village of Nageluo (DZ 格洛) (27 ° 53 ′ 23.54 ″ N, 98 ° 45 ′ 43.90 ″ E), Bangdang Township (棒当乡), Gongshan County, Nujiang Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China. Paratypes: Five specimens from the type locality: KIZ 034191 (field number BS 1602), immature female, whole body preserved in ethanol; KIZ 034192 (field number BS 1603), immature female, cleaned skull with body preserved in ethanol; KIZ 035088 (field number 20171101), adult female, skin, skull with body preserved in ethanol; KIZ 035087 (field number 20171102), adult male, skin, skull with body preserved in ethanol; and KIZ 035086 (field number 20171103), adult male, whole body preserved in ethanol. Referred specimens:

Across the great divide: revision of the genus Eupetaurus (Sciuridae: Pteromyini), the woolly flying squirrels of the Himalayan region, with the description of two new species

distribution

Distribution: Southwest China, Bhutan and possibly in Northeastern Myanmar (Jackson et al. 2022).

Mammals of Myanmar: an annotated checklist