Sciurus
Tree squirrels | |
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Eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Sciuridae |
Tribe: | Sciurini |
Genus: | Sciurus Linnaeus, 1758 |
Subgenera | |
Tenes |
The genus Sciurus contains most of the common, bushy-tailed squirrels in North America, Europe, temperate Asia, Central America and South America.[1]
Species
The number of species in the genus is subject to change.
1980s
- Ingram's Squirrel, Sciurus ingrami (subg. Guerlinguetus) ⇒ Brazilian squirrel
- Kaibab squirrel Sciurus kaibabensis (subg. Otosciurus) ⇒ Abert's squirrel
2005
In 2005 Thorington & Hoffman accepted 28 species in the genus; this is the taxonomic interpretation followed by the IUCN website (most squirrel assessments were written in 2008, despite all most being dated 2016/2017):
Genus Sciurus – Tree squirrels
- Subgenus Sciurus
- Allen's squirrel, Sciurus alleni
- Arizona gray squirrel, Sciurus arizonensis
- Mexican gray squirrel, Sciurus aureogaster
- Eastern gray squirrel, Sciurus carolinensis
- Collie's squirrel, Sciurus colliaei
- Deppe's squirrel, Sciurus deppei
- Japanese squirrel, Sciurus lis
- Mexican fox squirrel, Sciurus nayaritensis
- Fox squirrel, Sciurus niger
- Peters's squirrel, Sciurus oculatus
- Variegated squirrel, Sciurus variegatoides
- Eurasian red squirrel, Sciurus vulgaris
- Yucatan squirrel, Sciurus yucatanensis
- Subgenus Otosciurus
- Abert's squirrel, Sciurus aberti
- Subgenus Guerlinguetus
- Brazilian squirrel (Guianan squirrel), Sciurus aestuans
- Yellow-throated squirrel, Sciurus gilvigularis
- Red-tailed squirrel, Sciurus granatensis
- Bolivian squirrel, Sciurus ignitus
- Andean squirrel, Sciurus pucheranii
- Richmond's squirrel, Sciurus richmondi
- Sanborn's squirrel, Sciurus sanborni
- Guayaquil squirrel, Sciurus stramineus
- Subgenus Tenes
- Persian squirrel, Sciurus anomalus
- Subgenus Hadrosciurus
- Fiery squirrel, Sciurus flammifer
- Junín red squirrel, Sciurus pyrrhinus
- Subgenus Hesperosciurus
- Western gray squirrel, Sciurus griseus
- Subgenus Urosciurus
- Northern Amazon red squirrel, Sciurus igniventris
- Southern Amazon red squirrel, Sciurus spadiceus
2015
In 2015 15–17 species were left in the genus Sciurus after de Vivo & Carmignotto comprehensively reviewed South American Sciuridae for the first time in many decades and proposed numerous changes; synonymising some species and many subspecies, splitting another species, and naming new species. They followed Joel Asaph Allen's unsatisfying 1914 attempt in the early 20th century in splitting the genus Sciurus by raising the South American subgenera to the rank of genus, adding Urosciurus to Hadrosciurus, and splitting the genus Guerlinguetus in three. Their taxonomic treatment might also require Sciurus deppei to be moved to Notosciurus:[2]
- Genus Guerlinguetus
- Brazilian squirrel (Guianan squirrel), Yellow-throated squirrel ⇒ Guerlinguetus aestuans, Guerlinguetus brasiliensis
- Genus Hadrosciurus
- Junín red squirrel ⇒ Hadrosciurus pyrrhinus
- Northern Amazon red squirrel, Fiery squirrel ⇒ Hadrosciurus igniventris
- Southern Amazon red squirrel ⇒ Hadrosciurus spadiceus
- Genus Notosciurus
- Red-tailed squirrel ⇒ Notosciurus granatensis
- Andean squirrel, Bolivian squirrel, Sanborn's squirrel ⇒ Notosciurus pucheranii
- Richmond's squirrel ⇒ still Sciurus richmondi
- Genus Simosciurus
- Guayaquil squirrel ⇒ Simosciurus stramineus, Simosciurus nebouxii
2017
- Calabrian black squirrel, Sciurus meridionalis (subg. Sciurus)[3]
References
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- ↑ Thorington, R.W., Jr.; Hoffman, R.S. (2005). "Genus Sciurus". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 758–765. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
- ↑ de Vivo, Mario; Carmignotto, Ana Paula (January 2015). "Family Sciuridae G. Fischer, 1817". In Patton, James L.; Pardiñas, Ulyses F.J.; D'Elía, Guillermo. Mammals of South America Volume 2, Rodents (1 ed.). Chicago: University of Chicago Press. pp. 1–48. doi:10.7208/chicago/9780226169606.001.0001. ISBN 978-0226169576. Retrieved 11 August 2018.
- ↑ Wauters, Lucas A.; Giovanni Amori; Gaetano Aloise; Spartaco Gippoliti; Paolo Agnelli; Andrea Galimberti; Maurizio Casiraghi; Damiano Preatoni; Adriano Martinoli (2017). "New endemic mammal species for Europe: Sciurus meridionalis (Rodentia, Sciuridae)". Hystrix. 28 (1): 1–28. doi:10.4404/hystrix-28.1-12015.
- Andrew Duff and Ann Lawson (2004). Mammals of the World: A checklist. A & C Black. ISBN 071366021X.
- Nowak, Ronald M. 1999. Walker's Mammals of the World, 6th edition. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1936 pp. ISBN 0-8018-5789-9
- Eisenberg, J.F. 1989. "Mammals of the Neotropics, Volume 1: The Northern Neotropics: Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana". University of Chicago Press.
- Redford, K.H. and Eisenberg, J.F. 1992. "Mammals of the Neotropics, Volume 2: The Southern Cone: Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay". University of Chicago Press.
- Eisenberg, J.F. and Redford, K.H. 1999. "Mammals of the Neotropics, Volume 3: The Central Neotropics: Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil". University of Chicago Press.