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title: "Gewone vliegende eekhoorn"
description: "Pteromys volans — Zoogdieren. The Siberian flying squirrel (Pteromys volans) is an Old World flying squirrel ranging from the Baltic Sea in the west, throughout Northern Asia to the coast of the Pacific Ocean in the east."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/siberian-flying-squirrel
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# Gewone vliegende eekhoorn

> Pteromys volans — Zoogdieren. The Siberian flying squirrel (Pteromys volans) is an Old World flying squirrel ranging from the Baltic Sea in the west, throughout Northern Asia to the coast of the Pacific Ocean in the east.

- Scientific name: *Pteromys volans*
- Category: `mammals` (Zoogdieren)
- Habitats: `forest` (Bos)
- iNaturalist observations: 1642
- Wikidata: [Q243339](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q243339)
- iNaturalist taxon: [46146](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/46146)

## Names

- en: Siberian Flying Squirrel
- de: Europäisches Gleithörnchen
- es: Ardilla Voladora Europea
- fr: Polatouche de Sibérie
- nl: Gewone vliegende eekhoorn
- pl: Polatucha syberyjska

## Countries with the most observations

FI (1050), RU (242), KR (97), BY (58), JP (23), CN (5), EE (3)

## Summary

The Siberian flying squirrel (Pteromys volans) is an Old World flying squirrel ranging from the Baltic Sea in the west, throughout Northern Asia to the coast of the Pacific Ocean in the east. It is the only species of flying squirrel in Europe and is considered vulnerable in the European Union where it occurs only in Estonia and Finland. In Latvia, it was last sighted in 2001 and has been considered to be locally extinct since 2013.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberian_flying_squirrel

## Photo

![Gewone vliegende eekhoorn](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/siberian-flying-squirrel/medium.jpg)

Photo: Ilkka Kaita-aho · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/52444906

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/siberian-flying-squirrel?lang=nl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).