Check List 22(2): 291-296, doi: 10.15560/22.2.291
First record of the Tibetan Woolly Flying Squirrel, Eupetaurus tibetensis Jackson et al., 2021 (Rodentia, Sciuridae, Pteromyini), from eastern Nepal
Samundra Ambuhang Subba‡, Dipendra Pokharel§, Sheren Shrestha‡, Hari Bhadra Acharya|, Ghana Shyam Gurung‡, Shashank Poudel‡, Kanchan Thapa‡‡ World Wild Fund for Nature Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal§ Kangchenjunga Conservation Area, Taplejung, Nepal| Ministry of Forests and Environment, Kathmandu, Nepal
Corresponding author: Samundra Ambuhang Subba ( samundra.subba@gmail.com ) Academic editor: Faisal Ali Anwarali Khan © Samundra Ambuhang Subba, Dipendra Pokharel, Sheren Shrestha, Hari Bhadra Acharya, Ghana Shyam Gurung, Shashank Poudel, Kanchan Thapa. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Citation:
Subba SA, Pokharel D, Shrestha S, Acharya HB, Gurung GS, Poudel S, Thapa K (2026) First record of the Tibetan Woolly Flying Squirrel, Eupetaurus tibetensis Jackson et al., 2021 (Rodentia, Sciuridae, Pteromyini), from eastern Nepal. Check List 22(2): 291-296. https://doi.org/10.15560/22.2.291 |  |
Abstract
All three species of woolly flying squirrels, genus Eupetaurus, are among the world’s rarest and least studied mammals. Here, we report the first confirmed record of the Tibetan Woolly Flying Squirrel, Eupetaurus tibetensis Jackson et al., 2021, from Kangchenjunga Conservation Area in northeastern Nepal. Captured by camera traps during a Snow Leopard survey, this record fills a significant biogeographic gap in the known distribution of the genus Eupetaurus, suggesting a continuous Himalayan distribution. This finding underscores the need for systematic research to understand the species’ distributional limits and conservation status.
Keywords
Camera trapping, Central Himalaya, distributional gap, Kangchenjunga Conservation Area