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Petaurista philippensis (Indian giant flying squirrel)

Wikipedia Abstract

The Indian giant flying squirrel (Petaurista philippensis), also called the large brown flying squirrel or the common giant flying squirrel, is a species of rodent in the Sciuridae family. It is found in mainland Southeast and South Asia, and southern and central China.
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Infraspecies

Petaurista philippensis annamensis
Petaurista philippensis cineraceus
Petaurista philippensis grandis
Petaurista philippensis hainana
Petaurista philippensis lylei
Petaurista philippensis mergulus
Petaurista philippensis nigra
Petaurista philippensis philippensis
Petaurista philippensis rubricundus
Petaurista philippensis yunanensis

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
2
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
18
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 5.88
EDGE Score: 1.93
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  3.642 lbs (1.652 kg)
Birth Weight [1]  56 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore, Granivore, Herbivore
Diet - Fruit [2]  30 %
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  10 %
Diet - Plants [2]  30 %
Diet - Seeds [2]  30 %
Forages - Arboreal [2]  100 %
Gestation [1]  46 days
Litter Size [1]  1
Maximum Longevity [3]  16 years
Nocturnal [2]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [3]  20 inches (50 cm)
Weaning [1]  3 months 1 day

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Bawangling National Nature Reserve V 10693 Hainan, China  

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Himalaya Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan No
Indo-Burma Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam No
Mountains of Southwest China China, Myanmar No
Western Ghats and Sri Lanka India, Sri Lanka No

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Bubo nipalensis (Spot-bellied Eagle-Owl)[6]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Atopophthirus setosus[7]
Phthirunculus sumatranus[7]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 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
♦ 4FOOD AVAILABILITY AND FOOD HABITS OF INDIAN GIANT FLYING SQUIRRELS (PETAURISTA PHILIPPENSIS) IN TAIWAN, CHI-CHIEN KUO AND LING-LING LEE, Journal of Mammalogy, 84(4):1330-1340, 2003
♦ 5Nandini, R., and N. Parthasarathy. "Food habits of the Indian giant flying squirrel (Petaurista philippensis) in a rain forest fragment, Western Ghats." Journal of Mammalogy 89.6 (2008): 1550+. Academic OneFile. Web. 15 July 2014.
♦ 6Predation by Forest Eagle-Owl Bubo nipalensis on Mouse Deer Moschiola meminna, Nandini R, Indian Birds Vol. 1 No. 5 (September-October 2005), p. 119-120
♦ 7Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
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