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Sciurus (squirrel)

Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae

Taxonomy

Sciurus was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant. It is the type genus of Sciuromorpha, Sciuridae, Sciurinae.

It was assigned to Glires by Linnaeus (1758); to Agilia by Illiger (1811); to Sciurina by Gray (1825); to Sciurinae by Hay (1902); to Sciuridae by Lambe (1908), Wilson (1967), Kurten and Anderson (1980) and McKenna and Bell (1997); and to Sciurini by Mercer and Roth (2003) and Emry et al. (2005).

Species

S. (Prosciurus), S. aberti, S. alleni, S. arizonensis, S. calycinus, S. carolinensis, S. flavus, S. giganteus, S. griseus, S. niger (syn. S. cinereus), S. olsoni, S. panolius, S. prevostii, S. siderolithicus, S. spectabilis, S. venturus, S. vittatus, S. vortmani, S. vulgaris

Species lacking formal opinion data

S. anomalus, S. warthae

Synonyms

Sciurus flavus was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant.

It was considered a nomen dubium by Thomas (1911).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1758	Sciurus Linnaeus p. 63
1758	Sciurus flavus Linnaeus p. 64
1811	Sciurus Illiger p. 83
1825	Sciurus Gray p. 342
1902	Sciurus Hay p. 719
1908	Sciurus Lambe
1967	Sciurus Wilson p. 208
1980	Sciurus Kurten and Anderson p. 220
1997	Sciurus McKenna and Bell
2003	Sciurus Mercer and Roth
2005	Sciurus Emry et al. p. 228

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata
—	Osteichthyes	()
subclass	Sarcopterygii	()
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha	(Nelson 2006)
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha	()
—	Tetrapoda
—	Reptiliomorpha
—	Anthracosauria
subclass	Amphibiosauria	Kuhn 1967
—	Cotylosauria	()
—	Amniota
subclass	Synapsida
—	Therapsida	()
infraorder	Cynodontia	()
—	Mammaliamorpha

Rank	Name	Author
—	Mammaliaformes
class	Mammalia
—	Theriamorpha	(Rowe 1993)
—	Theriiformes	()
—	Trechnotheria
—	Cladotheria
—	Zatheria
subclass	Tribosphenida	()
subclass	Theria
—	Eutheria	()
—	Placentalia
—	Boreoeutheria
—	Euarchontoglires	Murphy et al. 2001
—	Gliriformes	Wyss and Meng 1996
—	Glires	()
—	Simplicidentata	()
order	Rodentia	Bowdich 1821
superfamily	Sciuroidea
family	Sciuridae
tribe	Sciurini
genus	Sciurus

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. Sciurus Linnaeus 1758 [squirrel]

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Subg. †Sciurus (Prosciurus) Matthew 1903

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†Sciurus (Prosciurus) vetustus Matthew 1903

Invalid names: Prosciurus minor Russell 1972 [synonym]

Sciurus aberti Woodhouse 1853

Sciurus alleni Nelson 1898

Sciurus arizonensis Coues 1867

†Sciurus calycinus Cope 1871

Sciurus carolinensis Gmelin 1788 [eastern gray squirrel]

†Sciurus giganteus Freudenberg 1941