Mishmi giant flying squirrel

{{Short description|Species of rodent}}

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| image = Mishmi Giant Flying Squirrel (Petaurista mishmiensis).jpg

| status = NT

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite journal |author1=Engelbrektsson, P. |author2=Kennerley, R. | title = Petaurista mishmiensis | journal = IUCN Red List of Threatened Species | volume= 2016| page = e.T45959040A45973151 | publisher = IUCN | year = 2016| doi = 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T45959040A45973151.en | doi-access = free }}

| genus = Petaurista

| species = mishmiensis

| authority = Choudhury, 2009

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The Mishmi giant flying squirrel (Petaurista mishmiensis) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. First described in 2009 from East Himalayan forests at altitudes of {{cvt|600-1600|m|ft}} in the Mishmi Hills of northeastern Arunachal Pradesh in India (it might also occur just across the border in neighbouring China),{{cite journal | author=Choudhury, A.U. | year=2009 | title=One more new flying squirrel of the genus Petaurista Link, 1795 from Arunachal Pradesh in northeast India | journal=Newsletter and Journal of the Rhino Foundation for Nat. In NE India | volume=8 | pages=26–34 }} the taxonomic status and position of this giant flying squirrel is not fully resolved.{{cite journal | author1=Krishna, M.C. | author2=A. Kumar | author3=O.P. Tripathi | author4=J.L. Koprowski | year=2016 | title=Diversity, Distribution and Status of Gliding Squirrels in Protected and Non-protected Areas of the Eastern Himalayas in India | journal=Hystrix: The Italian Journal of Mammalogy | volume=27 | issue=2 | pages=1–9 | doi=10.4404/hystrix-27.2-11688 }}