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Encyclopedia > Aeromys
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Large Black Flying Squirrels
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Sciuridae
Subfamily: Pteromyinae
Genus: Aeromys
Robinson & Kloss, 1915
Species

Aeromys tephromelas
Aeromys thomasi
Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. ... Phyla Porifera (sponges) Ctenophora (comb jellies) Cnidaria (coral, jellyfish, anenomes) Placozoa (trichoplax) Subregnum Bilateria (bilateral symmetry) Acoelomorpha (basal) Orthonectida (flatworms, echinoderms, etc. ... Typical Classes Subphylum Urochordata - Tunicatas Ascidiacea Thaliacea Larvacea Subphylum Cephalochordata - Lancelets Subphylum Myxini - Hagfishes Subphylum Vertebrata - Vertebrates Petromyzontida - Lampreys Placodermi (extinct) Chondrichthyes - Cartilaginous fishes Acanthodii (extinct) Actinopterygii - Ray-finned fishes Actinistia - Coelacanths Dipnoi - Lungfishes Amphibia - Amphibians Reptilia - Reptiles Aves - Birds Mammalia - Mammals Chordates (phylum Chordata) include the vertebrates, together with... Orders Subclass Multituberculata (extinct) Plagiaulacida Cimolodonta Subclass Palaeoryctoides (extinct) Subclass Triconodonta (extinct) Subclass Eutheria (includes extinct ancestors)/Placentalia (excludes extinct ancestors) Afrosoricida Artiodactyla Carnivora Cetacea Chiroptera Cimolesta (extinct) Creodonta (extinct) Condylarthra (extinct) Dermoptera Desmostylia (extinct) Embrithopoda (extinct) Hyracoidea Insectivora Lagomorpha Litopterna (extinct) Macroscelidea Mesonychia (extinct) Notoungulata (extinct) Perissodactyla Pholidota Plesiadapiformes... Families See Classification Section The order Rodentia is the most numerous of all the branches on the mammal family tree. ... Genera Many: see text. ... In biology, a species is the basic unit of biodiversity. ...

Large Black Flying Squirrels (genus Aeromys) form a taxon of squirrels under the subfamily Pteromyinae. They are only found in South-east Asia. In biology, a genus (plural genera) is a grouping in the classification of living organisms having one or more related and morphologically similar species. ... Genera Many, see the article Sciuridae. ... ... World map showing Asia. ...



There are two species of Large Black Flying Squirrels:

  • Black Flying Squirrel, Aeromys tephromelas
  • Thomas' Flying Squirrel, Aeromys thomasi

  Results from FactBites:
 
Skinwings - ErrantryWiki (328 words)
(Aeromys pterodermatus subterraneis and sub-families) Underground-dwelling flying rodents of the New York urban ecology.
The nearest "outer world" relative is Aeromys tephromelas, the fl flying squirrel of southeast Asia.
No one is certain at what point in their evolution the skinwings went underground and changed from herbivores to omnivores.
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