Sciurinae

Sciurinae
Temporal range: Late Eocene - recent
Syntheosciurus brochus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Infraclass: Placentalia
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[2][3] 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.[4]

Classification

Subfamily Sciurinae[5]

References

  1. 1 2 Li, Q.; Ni, X.; Stidham, T. A.; Qin, C.; Gong, H.; Zhang, L. (2023). "Two large squirrels (Rodentia, Mammalia) from the Junggar Basin of northwestern China demonstrate early radiation among squirrels and suggest forested paleoenvironment in the late Eocene of Central Asia". Frontiers in Earth Science. 10 1004509. Bibcode:2023FrEaS..1004509L. doi:10.3389/feart.2022.1004509.
  2. ↑ Hoffmann, R.S.; Anderson, C.G.; Thorington, R.W.J; Heaney, L.R (1993). Wilson, D.E; Reeder, Reeder (eds.). Family Sciuridae. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. pp. 419–465.
  3. ↑ Thorington, RW; Pitassy, D; Jansa, S (2002). "Phylogenies of flying squirrels (Pteromyinae)". Journal of Mammalian Evolution. 9: 99–135. doi:10.1023/A:1021335912016. S2CID 12443674.
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ 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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