Petaurista

genus of mammals
Taxon taxon Q1080535
Petaurista
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Summary

Petaurista is a taxon[1]. Petaurista ranks in the top 0.83% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (468 views/month, #1,618 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Taxon rank: genus[3]
  • Parent taxon: Pteromyini[4]
  • Taxon name: Petaurista[5]
  • Commons category: Petaurista[6]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Petaurista[7]
  • Taxon common name: Giant Flying Squirrels[8], พญากระรอกบิน[9]
  • Diel cycle: nocturnal[10]

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Identifiers

Petaurista's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 45980[11]. Petaurista's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 55155[12]. Petaurista's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 111057[13]. Petaurista's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 2437549[14]. Recorded ITIS TSN include 632318[15] and 943940[16].

Why It Matters

Petaurista has Wikipedia articles in 21 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[17] Petaurista is known by 20 alternative names across languages and contexts.[18]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Squirrels of the World. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [12] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [15] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [13] ↑ . Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [10] ↑ . Evolution and spectral tuning of visual pigments in birds and mammals. wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [17] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [18] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 3d ago · AntiDerangedKhanTengriAction · 2026-10-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Itis tsn → 632318, 943940
    Sitelink count → 32
    Wikipedia languages → ['arz', 'avk', 'azb', 'bcl', 'br', 'ca', 'ceb', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'eu', 'fa', 'f
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Itis tsn: 943940, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/290800|batch #290800]]"
  2. 8w ago · Yapy28 · 2026-08-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Diel cycle → nocturnal
    Taxon rank → genus
    Instance of → —
    Interlingual index id → i47982
    + 5 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/47825|batch #47825]]: OENN batch"
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