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Philippine Colugos
Cynocephalus
Cynocephalus volans (L.), also known as Philippine flying lemur or Colugo(Eng., Kagwang (Vis.) and Kabal (Bagobo) of the family Cynocephalidae is approximately two (2) genera. The name flying lemur is misleading, as they are not lemurs and they cannot truly fly instead they have the habit of jumping and gliding from one tree to another hence they are called glider. They belong to order Dermoptera that includes a single family, and that family has only two...
1 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 1 known species
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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 42537.