Sciurinae
Temporal range: Late Eocene - recent
Syntheosciurus brochus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Sciuridae
Subfamily: Sciurinae
Hemprich, 1820
Genera

Sciurinae (/sɪˈjuːrɪneɪ/) is a subfamily of squirrels (in the family Sciuridae), uniting the flying squirrels with certain related tree squirrels. Older sources[1][2] place the flying squirrels in a separate subfamily (Pteromyinae) and unite all remaining sciurids into the subfamily Sciurinae, but this has been strongly refuted by genetic studies.[3]

Classification

Subfamily Sciurinae[4]

References

  1. ^ Hoffmann, R.S.; Anderson, C.G.; Thorington, R.W.J; Heaney, L.R (1993). Wilson, D.E; Reeder, Reeder (eds.). Family Sciuridae. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press. pp. 419–465.
  2. ^ Thorington, RW; Pitassy, D; Jansa, S (2002). "Phylogenies of flying squirrels (Pteromyinae)". J. Mamm. Evol. 9: 99–135. doi:10.1023/A:1021335912016. S2CID 12443674.
  3. ^ Steppan, S. J. B. L. Storz, and R. S. Hoffmann. 2004. Nuclear DNA phylogeny of the squirrels (Mammalia: Rodentia) and the evolution of arboreality from c-myc and RAG1. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 30:703-719.
  4. ^ Thorington, R. W. and R. S. Hoffmann. 2005. Family Sciuridae. pp 754–818 in Mammal Species of the World A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. walker's mammals of the world 5th edition Volume 1
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