Sciurinae

Taxobox
name = Sciurinae
fossil_range = Late Eocene - Recent

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image_width = 250px
image_caption = "Syntheosciurus brochus"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
subphylum = Vertebrata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
familia = Sciuridae
subfamilia = Sciurinae
subfamilia_authority = Hemprich, 1820
subdivision_ranks = Genera
subdivision =
*Tribe Sciurini
**"Microsciurus"
**"Rheithrosciurus"
**"Sciurus"
**"Syntheosciurus"
**"Tamiasciurus"
*Tribe Pteromyini
**"Aeretes"
**"Aeromys"
**"Belomys"
**"Biswamoyopterus"
**"Eoglaucomys"
**"Eupetaurus"
**"Glaucomys"
**"Hylopetes"
**"Iomys"
**"Petaurillus"
**"Petaurista"
**"Petinomys"
**"Pteromys"
**"Pteromyscus"
**"Trogopterus"

The Sciurinae is a subfamily of squirrels in the (family Sciuridae). It unites the flying squirrels with certain related tree squirrels. Older sourcesFact|date=March 2008 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.Fact|date=March 2008

Classification

*Subfamily Sciurinae
**Tribe Sciurini
***"Microsciurus"
***"Rheithrosciurus"
***"Sciurus"
***"Syntheosciurus"
***"Tamiasciurus"
**Tribe Pteromyini - flying squirrels
***"Aeretes"
***"Aeromys"
***"Belomys"
***"Biswamoyopterus"
***"Eoglaucomys"
***"Eupetaurus"
***"Glaucomys"
***"Hylopetes"
***"Iomys"
***"Petaurillus"
***"Petaurista"
***"Petinomys"
***"Pteromys"
***"Pteromyscus"
***"Trogopterus"

References

*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.
*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.