''Belomys'' is a genus of squirrels that contains a single extant species, the

hairy-footed flying squirrel The hairy-footed flying squirrel (''Belomys pearsonii'') is a flying squirrel found in the mountains of the eastern Himalaya, Southeast Asia, southern China, and the island of Taiwan. It lives at elevations of above sea level. The fur is red ...

''(Belomys pearsonii)''. Fossil species include the

Pleistocene The Pleistocene ( , often referred to as the ''Ice age'') is the geological Epoch (geology), epoch that lasted from about 2,580,000 to 11,700 years ago, spanning the Earth's most recent period of repeated glaciations. Before a change was fina ...

'' Belomys thamkaewi'' and the

Late Pliocene Late may refer to: * LATE, an acronym which could stand for: ** Limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy, a proposed form of dementia ** Local-authority trading enterprise, a New Zealand business law ** Local average treatment effect, ...

Belomys parapearsoni ''Belomys'' is a genus of squirrels that contains a single extant species, the hairy-footed flying squirrel ''(Belomys pearsonii)''. Fossil species include the Pleistocene ''Belomys thamkaewi'' and the Late Pliocene ''Belomys parapearsoni'', bot ...

'', both from

Southeast Asia Southeast Asia, also spelled South East Asia and South-East Asia, and also known as Southeastern Asia, South-eastern Asia or SEA, is the geographical United Nations geoscheme for Asia#South-eastern Asia, south-eastern region of Asia, consistin ...

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{{Taxonbar, from=Q12254966 Rodent genera Flying squirrels Mammal genera with one living species Taxa named by Oldfield Thomas