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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 ...
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 ...
They are large to very large flying squirrels found in forests and other wooded habitats in southern and eastern Asia. [ 2 ] Like other flying squirrels, they are mostly nocturnal and able to glide (not actually fly like a bat ) long distances between trees by spreading out their patagium , skin between their limbs.
The southern flying squirrel or the assapan (Glaucomys volans) is one of three species of flying squirrels found in North America. It is found in deciduous and mixed woods in the eastern half of North America, from southeastern Canada to Florida. Disjunct populations of this species have been recorded in the highlands of Mexico, Guatemala, and ...
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]
Flying squirrels are found in Asia (most species), North America (genus Glaucomys) and Europe (Siberian flying squirrel). They inhabit tropical, temperate, and Subarctic environments, with the Glaucomys preferring boreal and montane coniferous forests, [ 60 ] specifically landing on red spruce ( Picea rubens ) trees as landing sites; they are ...