Bed-jacket vs Northern Chinese Flying Squirrel

Alectryon tomentosus compared with Aeretes melanopterus

Key Differences

• Bed-jacket is Least Concern while Northern Chinese Flying Squirrel is Near Threatened.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Bed-jacket	Northern Chinese Flying Squirrel
Kingdom	Plantae (Plants)	Animalia (Animals)
Phylum	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)	Chordata (Chordates)
Class	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)	Mammalia (Mammals)
Order	Sapindales (Sapindales)	Rodentia (Rodents)
Family	Sapindaceae	Sciuridae (Squirrels)
Genus	Alectryon	Aeretes
Species	Alectryon tomentosus	Aeretes melanopterus

Conservation Status

Bed-jacket

LC — Least Concern

Northern Chinese Flying Squirrel

NT — Near Threatened

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Bed-jacket	Northern Chinese Flying Squirrel
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Bed-jacket

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial habitats from tropical forests to temperate regions.

Northern Chinese Flying Squirrel

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Bed-jacket

The Bed-jacket (Alectryon tomentosus) is a species in the genus Alectryon. It is currently classified as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List. Typically found in diverse terrestrial habitats from tropical forests to temperate regions.