#0381 · 🦊 mammals
Sunda Colugo
🇳🇱 Maleise Vliegende Kat ·Galeopterus variegatus
📍 Bukit Panjang, Singapore
📍 Bukit Panjang, Singapore
📍 Central Water Catchment, Singapore
📍 Borneo, Sandakan, Sabah, MY
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Michael Barth · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © budak · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © CHUNG CHANG-LIN · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Martin Kennewell · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Michael Jacobi · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Michael Barth · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Bukit Panjang, Singapore:© msoldn · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Bukit Panjang, Singapore:© Ivan Neo · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Central Water Catchment, Singapore:© klearad · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Borneo, Sandakan, Sabah, MY:© Alex Frood · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Habits and lifestyle
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 3,465 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Jean-Baptiste Audebert in 1799 (227 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Sunda Colugo
- Nederlands
- Maleise Vliegende Kat
- scientific name
- Galeopterus variegatus
- class
- Mammalia
- order
- Dermoptera
- family
- Cynocephalidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 3,465
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1799 by Jean-Baptiste Audebert
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 74351, Wikidata Q5198886, GBIF 2432087, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.