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Northern Flying Squirrel
Glaucomys sabrinus (G. K. Shaw, 1801)

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Chordata - chordates »  class Mammalia - mammals »  order Rodentia - rodents »  family Sciuridae - squirrels »  genus Glaucomys

Other names

= Carolina Flying Squirrel

Included taxa

Number of records: 24

subspecies Glaucomys sabrinus alpinus (Richardson, 1828) - Richardson Flying Squirrel
subspecies Glaucomys sabrinus bangsi (Rhoads, 1897) - Bangs Flying Squirrel
subspecies Glaucomys sabrinus californicus (Rhoads, 1897) - San Bernadino Flying Squirrel
subspecies Glaucomys sabrinus canescens A. H. Howell, 1915
subspecies Glaucomys sabrinus coloratus Handley, 1953
subspecies Glaucomys sabrinus columbiensis A. H. Howell, 1915 - Okanagan Flying Squirrel
subspecies Glaucomys sabrinus flaviventris A. H. Howell, 1915 - Yellow-bellied Flying Squirrel
subspecies Glaucomys sabrinus fuliginosus (Rhoads, 1897) - Cascade Flying Squirrel
subspecies Glaucomys sabrinus fuscus Miller, 1936
subspecies Glaucomys sabrinus goodwini R. M. Anderson, 1943
subspecies Glaucomys sabrinus gouldi R. M. Anderson, 1943
subspecies Glaucomys sabrinus griseifrons A. H. Howell, 1934
subspecies Glaucomys sabrinus klamathensis (Merriam, 1897) - Klamath Flying Squirrel
subspecies Glaucomys sabrinus lascivus (Bangs, 1899) - Sierra Flying Squirrel
subspecies Glaucomys sabrinus latipes A. H. Howell, 1915 - Broad-footed Flying Squirrel
subspecies Glaucomys sabrinus lucifugus Hall, 1934
subspecies Glaucomys sabrinus macrotis (Mearns, 1898) - Mearns's Flying Squirrel
subspecies Glaucomys sabrinus makkovikensis (Sornborger, 1900) - Labrador Flying Squirrel
subspecies Glaucomys sabrinus murinauralis Musser, 1961
subspecies Glaucomys sabrinus reductus Cowan, 1937 - Atnarko Flying Squirrel
subspecies Glaucomys sabrinus sabrinus (Shaw, 1801) - Hudson Bay Flying Squirrel
subspecies Glaucomys sabrinus stephensi (Merriam, 1900) - California Coast Flying Squirrel
subspecies Glaucomys sabrinus yukonensis (Osgood, 1900) - Yukon Flying Squirrel
subspecies Glaucomys sabrinus zaphaeus (Osgood, 1905) - Alaska Coast Flying Squirrel

Links and literature

EN IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2024-1 [39553]

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species [http://www.iucnredlist.org/] [as Glaucomys sabrinus (Shaw, 1801)]
Data retrieved on: 29 January 2024
EN ASM Mammal Diversity Database 2.1 [1001621]

ASM Mammal Diversity Database [https://www.mammaldiversity.org/], American Society of Mammalogists [as Glaucomys sabrinus (G. K. Shaw, 1801)]
Data retrieved on: 29 May 2025
EN Wilson D. E., Reeder D. M. (editors) (2005): Mammal Species of the World (MSW). A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed) [http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3] [as Glaucomys sabrinus Shaw, 1801]
Data retrieved on: 5 December 2008
CZ Anděra M. (1999): České názvy živočichů II. Savci (Mammalia), Národní muzeum, (zoologické odd.), Praha, 147 pp. [as Glaucomys sabrinus (Shaw, 1801)]

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