Sciurinae
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| Sciurinae Fossil Range: Late Eocene - Recent | ||||||||||||||
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The Sciurinae is a subfamily of squirrel (family Sciuridae).
Genera
Tree squirrels
- Callosciurus, 15 species, Asia.
- Epixerus (giant palm squirrels), 2 species, western Africa.
- Exilisciurus (pygmy squirrels), 6 species, Borneo and the Philippines.
- Funambulus (palm squirrels), 5 species, India.
- Funisciurus, 12 species, central and southern Africa.
- Glyphotes (sculptor squirrels), 2 species, Borneo.
- Heliosciurus (sun squirrels), 3 species, Africa.
- Hyosciurus, 1 species, the Celebes Long-nosed Squirrel, Sulawesi (Indonesia).
- Microsciurus (pygmy squirrels), 5 species, southern Central America and northern South America.
- Myosciurus, 1 species, the African Pygmy Squirrel, Cameroon and Gabon; the smallest sciurid.
- Nannosciurus, 1 species, the Black-eared Pygmy Squirrel, Indonesia.
- Paraxerus (bush squirrels), 12 species, Africa.
- Prosciurillus (dwarf squirrels), 5 species, Sulawesi (Indonesia).
- Protoxerus (giant squirrels), 2 species, Liberia to Kenya and Angola.
- Ratufa, 4 species, southeast Asia; the largest tree squirrels.
- Rhinosciurus, 1 species, the Shrew-faced Squirrel or Long-nosed Squirrel, Thailand, Malaya, Sumatra, and Borneo.
- Rubrisciurus, 1 species, the Red-bellied Squirrel, Sulawesi (Indonesia).
- Sciurillus, 1 species, the Neotropical Pygmy Squirrel, the Guianas, northeast Brazil, and the Amazon basin of Peru.
- Sciurus (typical tree squirrels), 31 species, Europe, the Middle East, northern Asia, North America, northern South America; the largest genus in the family, including the gray squirrels, Fox Squirrel and Eurasian Red Squirrel.
- Sundasciurus, 13 species, from Thailand to Indonesia and southern Philippines.
- Syntheosciurus (mountain squirrels), 2 species, Panama and Costa Rica; rare.
- Tamiasciurus (pine squirrels), 2 species (the American Red Squirrel and Douglas Squirrel), northern and western USA and most of Canada and Alaska.
Ground squirrels
- Ammospermophilus (Antelope squirrels), five species, southwestern USA and northern Mexico.
- Atlantoxerus, 1 species, Barbary Ground Squirrel, Morocco and Algeria.
- Cynomys (Prairie dogs), five species, North Dakota to central Mexico.
- Dremomys, four species, southeast Asia.
- Lariscus (striped ground squirrels), four species, southern Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia.
- Marmota (marmots), 14 species.
- Menetes, 1 species, Berdmore's Ground Squirrel, Indochina.
- Rheithrosciurus, 1 species, Tufted Ground Squirrel, Borneo. Also Groove-toothed squirrel - Rheithrosciurus macrotis
- Spermophilopsis, one species, Long-clawed Ground Squirrel, Middle East.
- Spermophilus, 36 species, from western Europe to Siberia and Alaska to northern Mexico; the largest genus of ground squirrels.
- Tamias (chipmunks), 23 species, northern Mexico, most of the USA, Canada, and Siberia.
- Tamiops (striped squirrels), four species, China, Vietnam, Laos, Taiwan, Nepal, Burma, Malaya, and Cambodia.
- Xerus, four species, sub-Saharan Africa.
