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Rheithrosciurus Gray 1867
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Rheithrosciurus Gray 1867
Rheithrosciurus Gray 1867, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 3, 20: 273.
Type Species: Sciurus macrotis Gray 1857
Synonyms: Rhithrosciurus Hose 1893.
Species and subspecies: 1 species:
Species Rheithrosciurus macrotis (Gray 1856)
Discussion: Tribe Sciurini according to Moore (1959:177), or incertae sedis (Simpson, 1945:78). Recent molecular studies (Mercer and Roth, 2003) support the placement of Rheithrosciurus in the tribe Sciurini.
Notes
Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Sciuridae, pp. 754-818 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 758, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316535
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- Is part of
- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7316535 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/91C4B717759630DB830679AF52629BE0 (URL)
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- https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/5560D2B9C8D78FBB5E8168325DC32FCB (URL)
- https://www.gbif.org/species/231537939 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Gray
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Rodentia
- Family
- Sciuridae
- Genus
- Rheithrosciurus
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Rheithrosciurus Gray, 1867 sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005
References
- Moore, J. C. 1959. Relationships among the living squirrels of the Sciurinae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 118 (4): 157 - 206.
- Simpson, G. G. 1945. The principles of classification and a classification of mammals. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 85: 1 - 350.
- Mercer, J. M., and L. Roth. 2003. The effects of Cenozoic global change on squirrel phylogeny. Science, 299 (5612): 1568 - 1572.