| cranial morphometric study of four giant flying squirrels (petaurista) (rodentia: sciuridae) from china. | the present study revisited the controversial taxonomic status of petaurista yunanensis, p. philippensis, p. hainana, and p. petaurista by using a considerably extended set of morphometrical characters (26 cranial variables from 60 adult specimen skulls). the results revealed no sexual dimorphism in any of the four species but confirmed significant craniometric differences among the four species in both the principal components analysis (pca) and discriminant function analysis (dfa), with the gr ... | 2012 | 22467385 |