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Biswamoyopterus
The Namdapha flying squirrel (Biswamoyopterus biswasi) is an arboreal, nocturnal flying squirrel endemic to northeastern India, where it is known from a single specimen collected in Namdapha National Park in 1981. It was the sole member in the genus Biswamoyopterus until the description of the Laotian giant flying squirrel (Biswamoyopterus laoensis) in 2013. No population estimates are available for B. biswasi, but the known habitat is tall Mesua ferrea jungles, often on hill slopes in the...
3 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 3 known species
Laotian Giant Flying Squirrel
speciesBiswamoyopterus laoensis
Mount Gaoligong Flying Squirrel
speciesBiswamoyopterus gaoligongensis
Namdapha Flying Squirrel
speciesBiswamoyopterus biswasi
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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 46203.