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  • southern flying squirrel (Glaucomys volans)
    flying squirrel
    / Classification and evolution

    …of anomalure are occasionally called scaly-tailed flying squirrels, but these rodents are classified in the family Anomaluridae. Previously, flying squirrels were placed in the subfamily Pteromyinae within Pteromyidae. Some researchers speculated later that Pteromyinae was not a single group but members from two different clusters of tree squirrels or possibly…

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    …of anomalure are occasionally called scaly-tailed flying squirrels, but these rodents are classified in the family Anomaluridae. Previously, flying squirrels were placed in the subfamily Pteromyinae within Pteromyidae. Some researchers speculated later that Pteromyinae was not a single group but members from two different clusters of tree squirrels or possibly…

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