Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
Full reference: J. E. Gray. 1821. On the natural arrangement of vertebrose animals. The London Medical Repository Monthly Journal and Review 15:296-310
Parent taxon: Sciuroidea according to C. Montgelard et al. 2002
See also Bonaparte 1850, Carroll 1988, Cope 1889, Emry et al. 2005, Flower 1883, Gadow 1898, Gray 1821, Hay 1902, Jaekel 1911, Johnson 1966, Korth et al. 2022, Kurten and Anderson 1980, Lambe 1908, Leidy 1873, Nowak 1991, Nowak 1999, Ray 1965 and Vianey-Liaud et al. 2014
Sister taxa: Aplodontidae, Reithroparamyidae
Subtaxa: Albanensia Arctomyoides Blackiini Callosciurini Cedromurinae Comtia Cynomyoides Douglassciurus Forsythia Funambulini Hesperopetes Heteroxerus Marmotini Miosciurus Miospermophilus Nototamias Oligosciurus Paenemarmota Palaearctomys Palaeosciurus Parapaenemarmota Paratamias Petauristodon Pliopetaurista Pliopetes Pliosciuropterus Prospermophilus Protosciurus Protospermophilus Protoxerini Pteromyinae Ratufini Sciurillus Sciurinae Sciurini Sciurion Sciuropterus Sciurotamias Tamiasciurini Vulcanisciurus Xerini
Type: Sciurus
Ecology: scansorial granivore-frugivore