Animalia > Chordata > Mammalia > Rodentia > Sciuridae > Hylopetes > Hylopetes spadiceusHylopetes spadiceus (red-cheeked flying squirrel)The red-cheeked flying squirrel (Hylopetes spadiceus) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is found in Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 4.69 EDGE Score: 1.74 |
| Adult Weight [1] | 50 grams |  | | Diet [2] | Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates), Granivore, Herbivore | | Diet - Ectothermic [2] | 20 % | | Diet - Invertibrates [2] | 20 % | | Diet - Plants [2] | 40 % | | Diet - Seeds [2] | 20 % | | Forages - Arboreal [2] | 100 % | | | Nocturnal [2] | Yes | | Snout to Vent Length [3] | 10 inches (26 cm) |
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Countries |
Ecozone |
Biome |
Species |
Report |
Climate |
Land
Use |
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Cardamom Mountains rain forests |
Cambodia, Thailand, Viet Nam |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Central Indochina dry forests |
Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Viet Nam |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests |
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Chao Phraya freshwater swamp forests |
Thailand |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Chao Phraya lowland moist deciduous forests |
Thailand |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Indochina mangroves |
Thailand, Cambodia, Viet Nam |
Indo-Malayan |
Mangroves |
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Irrawaddy dry forests |
Myanmar |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests |
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Irrawaddy moist deciduous forests |
Myanmar |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Kayah-Karen montane rain forests |
Myanmar, Thailand |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Myanmar Coast mangroves |
India, Myanmar, Malaysia, Thailand |
Indo-Malayan |
Mangroves |
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Myanmar coastal rain forests |
Myanmar, Bangladesh |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Northern Thailand-Laos moist deciduous forests |
Laos, Thailand |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Peninsular Malaysian montane rain forests |
Malaysia |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Peninsular Malaysian peat swamp forests |
Malaysia, Thailand |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Peninsular Malaysian rain forests |
Indonesia, Malaysia |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Southeastern Indochina dry evergreen forests |
Viet Nam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests |
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Southern Annamites montane rain forests |
Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Southern Vietnam lowland dry forests |
Viet Nam |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests |
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Sumatran freshwater swamp forests |
Indonesia |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Sumatran lowland rain forests |
Indonesia |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Sumatran montane rain forests |
Indonesia |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Sumatran peat swamp forests |
Indonesia |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Sumatran tropical pine forests |
Indonesia |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Coniferous Forests |
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Sunda Shelf mangroves |
Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei |
Indo-Malayan |
Mangroves |
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Tenasserim-South Thailand semi-evergreen rain forests |
Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Tonle Sap freshwater swamp forests |
Cambodia, Viet Nam |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Tonle Sap-Mekong peat swamp forests |
Cambodia, Viet Nam |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Location |
Endemic |
Species |
Website |
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Indo-Burma |
Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam |
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Sundaland |
Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Felisa A. Smith, S. Kathleen Lyons, S. K. Morgan Ernest, Kate E. Jones, Dawn M. Kaufman, Tamar Dayan, Pablo A. Marquet, James H. Brown, and John P. Haskell. 2003. Body mass of late Quaternary mammals. Ecology 84:3403 ♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027 ♦ 3Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109 Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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