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Belomys

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Nature Atlas. "Belomys." Accessed September 8, 2026. https://nature.interactiveatlas.org/taxa/genus-belomys.

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Nature Atlas. (n.d.). Belomys. Retrieved September 8, 2026, from https://nature.interactiveatlas.org/taxa/genus-belomys

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@misc{natureatlas-belomys,
  author = {Nature Atlas},
  title = {Belomys},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://nature.interactiveatlas.org/taxa/genus-belomys},
  note = {Accessed September 8, 2026}
}

Belomys is a genus of squirrel in the flying squirrel tribe Pteromyini that today contains a single living species, the hairy-footed flying squirrel, alongside two extinct fossil species. The genus, established by Oldfield Thomas in 1908 with a type species first named by John Edward Gray in 1842, has a temporal range running from the Late Pliocene to the present.

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Belomys is a genus of squirrels that contains a single extant species, the hairy-footed flying squirrel (Belomys pearsonii).

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