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Tibetan Woolly Flying Squirrel
Eupetaurus tibetensis
The Tibetan woolly flying squirrel (Eupetaurus tibetensis) is a species of very large flying squirrel in the genus Eupetaurus. It is found in the south-central portion of the Tibetan Plateau, namely south-central Tibet, northern Sikkim, and western Bhutan.
It is thought to be the sister species to the Yunnan woolly flying squirrel (E. nivamons), from which it likely diverged during the Pliocene-Pleistocene boundary. It differs from the western woolly flying squirrel (E. cinereus) in its saturated brown pelage with a reddish tinge, and differs from E. nivamons in its black tail tip being much longer than that of E. nivamons.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1279896.