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Newborn colugos are underdeveloped and weigh only 35 g (1.2 oz). [17] They spend the first six months of life clinging to their mother's belly. The mother colugo curls her tail and folds her patagium into a warm, secure, quasipouch to protect and transport her young. The young do not reach maturity until they are two to three years old. [9]
The Sunda flying lemur (Galeopterus variegatus), also called Malayan flying lemur and Malayan colugo, is the sole colugo species of the genus Galeopterus. [1] It is native to Southeast Asia from southern Myanmar, Thailand, southern Vietnam, Malaysia to Singapore and Indonesia and listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List. [2]
The two species of colugos make up the order Dermoptera. They are arboreal gliding mammals found in Southeast Asia. Family Cynocephalidae. Genus: Galeopterus. Sunda flying lemur, G. variegatus LC [15]
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Dermotherium is a genus of fossil mammals closely related to the living colugos, a small group of gliding mammals from Southeast Asia. Two species are recognized: D. major from the Late Eocene of Thailand, based on a single fragment of the lower jaw, and D. chimaera from the Late Oligocene of Thailand, known from three fragments of the lower jaw and two isolated upper molars.
4 Order: Dermoptera (colugos) 5 Order: Eulipotyphla (hedgehogs, shrews, moles and relatives) ... Sunda flying lemur: Galeopterus variegatus Audebert, 1799: Forest
The latter diverged prior to 79.6 million years into the orders of Primates and colugos. [11] The earliest fossil species often ascribed to Euarchonta ( Purgatorius coracis ) dates to the early Paleocene , 65 million years ago, [ 1 ] but one study claims it to be a non-placental eutherian. [ 12 ]
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