Petaurista

Some species of Petaurista truly are giants (for squirrels), reaching 2.5 kg and more than 100 cm in total length.

Archive 2007-01-01 Darren Naish 2007

(I'm including an image of the BBC Wildlife article here, which shows a photo of the flying squirrel Petaurista.)

Archive 2007-01-01 2007

By the way, I received some nice camera trap photographs of flying squirrels (Petaurista) on the ground.

That’s no mystery carnivore (part II)… it’s a giant squirrel! Darren Naish 2007

Also present are Japanese hare Lepus brachyurus angustidens, Japanese squirrel Sciurus lis, small Japanese flying squirrel Pteromys momonga, Japanese giant flying squirrel Petaurista leucogenys, Japanese dormouse Glirulus japonicus (EN), raccoon dog Nyctereutes procyonoides, Japanese fox Vulpes vulpes japonica, Japanese marten Martes melampus, ermine Mustela ermina, Siberian weasel Mustela sibirica and Eurasian badger Mele meles.

Shirakami-sanchi (Shirakami mountains), Japan 2009

Some species of Petaurista truly are giants (for squirrels), reaching 2.5 kg and more than 100 cm in total length.

That’s no mystery carnivore (part II)… it’s a giant squirrel! Darren Naish 2007

Petaurista leucogaster, may only be a variety of P. taguanoides.

Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2 George Grey 1855

They have a specimen of a young Petaurista taguanoides, under this name, in the Paris

Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2 George Grey 1855

I have retained the name of Petaurista for the flying Phalangers with hairy ears, as Dr. Shaw's Didelphis petaurus is evidently the same as P. flaviventer, and has naked ears, like the other species, and his name

Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2 George Grey 1855

One species of opossum, a flying squirrel (Petaurista) two kinds of dog, of which one is new, rats, and a fieldmouse.

Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 1 George Grey 1855

I saw but two flying squirrels and know not to which species of Petaurista they are to be referred.

Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 1 George Grey 1855