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The Siberian flying squirrel (Pteromys volans) is an Old World flying squirrel ranging from the Baltic Sea in the west, throughout Northern Asia to the coast of the Pacific Ocean in the east. It is the only species of flying squirrel in Europe and is considered vulnerable in the European Union where it occurs only in Estonia and Finland. [2]
Commonly referred to as the Old World flying squirrels, the genus Pteromys is distributed across temperate Eurasia, the Korean Peninsula and Japan.Although there are a host of flying squirrel genera in Asia (particularly southern Asia), Pteromys is the only one present in Europe.
Old World flying squirrels belong to the genus Pteromys (Greek for winged mouse). The three species of the genus Glaucomys ( Glaucomys sabrinus , Glaucomys volans and Glaucomys oregonensis ) are native to North America and Central America; many other taxa are found throughout Asia as well, with the range of the Siberian Flying Squirrel ...
Flying squirrel in flight. Southern flying squirrels have grey-brown fur on top with darker flanks and are a cream colored underneath. They have large dark eyes and flattened tails. They have a furry membrane called a patagium that extends from the front to the rear legs and is used to glide through the air. Total length (including tail) is 21 ...
The northern flying squirrel (Glaucomys sabrinus) is one of three species of the genus Glaucomys, the only flying squirrels found in North America. [2] [3] They are found in coniferous and mixed coniferous forests across much of Canada, from Alaska to Nova Scotia, and south to the mountains of North Carolina and west to Utah in the United States.
A few other mammals can glide or parachute; the best known are flying squirrels and flying lemurs. Flying squirrels (subfamily Petauristinae). There are more than 40 living species divided between 14 genera of flying squirrel. Flying squirrels are found in Asia (most species), North America (genus Glaucomys) and Europe (Siberian flying squirrel).
The oldest squirrel fossil, Hesperopetes, dates back to the Chadronian (late Eocene, about 40–35 million years ago) and is similar to modern flying squirrels. [45] A variety of fossil squirrels, from the latest Eocene to the Miocene, have not been assigned with certainty to any living lineage.
Miopetaurista is an extinct genus of flying squirrel. Fossils of this genus have been found from the Miocene and Pliocene of Europe (France, Germany) Asia (China), [1] and North America (Florida). [2]