Aeretes

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Aeretes
Temporal range: Late Pliocene - Recent
Aeretes melanopterus.jpg
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Sciuridae
Tribe: Pteromyini
Genus: Aeretes
G. M. Allen, 1940
Species
  • Aeretes melanopterus

Aeretes is a genus of squirrels that contains a single extant species, the groove-toothed flying squirrel (Aeretes melanopterus).

Two fossil species are also known from Late Pliocene of China.[1]

References[]

  1. ^ Jackson, S.M.; Thorington Jr., R.W. Gliding Mammals: Taxonomy of Living and Extinct Species. smithsonian contributions to zoology.


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