Kashmir flying squirrel

Kashmir flying squirrel
Conservation status
File:Status iucn3.1 LC.svg Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Sciuridae
Tribe:	Pteromyini
Genus:	Eoglaucomys A. H. Howell, 1915
Species:	E. fimbriatus
Binomial name
Eoglaucomys fimbriatus (J. E. Gray, 1837)
Subspecies
Eoglaucomys fimbriatus fimbriatus Eoglaucomys fimbriatus baberi
Synonyms
Sciuropterus fimbriatus J. E. Gray, 1837 Hylopetes fimbriatus (J. E. Gray, 1837)

The Kashmir flying squirrel (Eoglaucomys fimbriatus) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is monotypic within the genus Eoglaucomys. It is found in Afghanistan, India and Pakistan. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests. It is threatened by habitat loss. The Afghan flying squirrel is usually considered a subspecies.

Diet

The Kashmir flying squirrel's diet consists mainly of flowers or flower buds, seeds, fruits and a small amount of foliage, compared to other flying squirrel species like P. petaurista, also called the red giant flying squirrel.

References

• Shafique, Chaudhry M.; Barkati, Sohail; Oshida, Tatsuo; Ando, Motokazu. (2006). “Comparison of Diets between Two Sympatric Flying Squirrel Species in Northern Pakistan”. Journal of Mammalogy 87 (4): 784-789.
• Thorington, R. W. Jr. and R. S. Hoffman. 2005. Family Sciuridae. pp. 754–818 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.