Authority citation: Choudhury, A. 2009. Replacement Latin name for Mechuka giant flying squirrel of the genus Petaurista Link, 1795. Newsletter & Journal of The Rhino Foundation for nature in NE India 8:48.
Original name as described: Petaurista mechukaensis
Nominal names: niger Choudhury, 2007 [preoccupied] | mechukaensis Choudhury, 2009 [nomen novum]
Taxonomy
Subclass: Theria -- Infraclass: Placentalia -- Order: Rodentia -- Family: Sciuridae -- Subfamily: Sciurinae -- Tribe: Pteromyini
Type specimen voucher catalogue number: ZSI 25691
Type locality: "Mechuka, W Siang District, Arunachal Pradesh, India."
Country distribution (coarse map shown below; most species exist in only part of countries): India (IND)
Species Status: This species is currently living, it lives in wild habitats, its taxonomic status is currently accepted, and it is newly recognized since MSW3 2005.
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species status:
Species-specific notes: recently described under the name nigra, which is preoccupied and the name mechukaensis was described subsequently as a replacement name
Citation: Choudhury, A. (2007). A new flying squirrel of the genus Petaurista from Arunachal Pradesh in north-east India. Newsletter and journal of the Rhino Foundation for nature in North East India. 7: 26–32.|Choudhury, A. (2009). Replacement Latin name for Mechuka giant flying squirrels of the genus Petaurista Link, 1795. Newsletter and Journal of the Rhino Foundation for Nature in NE India, 8, 48.
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