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title: "Particolored Flying Squirrel"
description: "Hylopetes alboniger — Mamíferos. The particolored flying squirrel (Hylopetes alboniger) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pt/animal/particolored-flying-squirrel
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Particolored Flying Squirrel

> Hylopetes alboniger — Mamíferos. The particolored flying squirrel (Hylopetes alboniger) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae.

- Scientific name: *Hylopetes alboniger*
- Category: `mammals` (Mamíferos)
- Habitats: `forest` (Floresta)
- iNaturalist observations: 64
- Wikidata: [Q785344](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q785344)
- iNaturalist taxon: [46132](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/46132)

## Names

- en: Particolored Flying Squirrel
- de: Schwarzweißes Gleithörnchen

## Countries with the most observations

IN (21), CN (10), BD (5)

## Summary

The particolored flying squirrel (Hylopetes alboniger) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.
The Himalayan large-eared flying squirrel (Priapomys leonardi) was formerly considered a subspecies of H. alboniger, but phylogenetic analysis revealed that it occupies a completely different place in the taxonomy of flying squirrels, and it as thus classified as a distinct species in its own genus.

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

## Photo

![Particolored Flying Squirrel](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/particolored-flying-squirrel/medium.jpg)

Photo: Giant Eland · CC0 · commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Particolored_flying_squirrel.jpg

## Machine access

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