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Prosciurillus Ellerman 1947

Description

Prosciurillus Ellerman 1947

Prosciurillus Ellerman 1947, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 117: 259.

Type Species: Sciurus murinus Müller and Schlegel 1844

Species and subspecies: 5 species with 7 subspecies:

Species Prosciurillus abstrusus Moore 1958

Species Prosciurillus leucomus (Müller and Schlegel 1844)

Subspecies Prosciurillus leucomus subsp. leucomus Müller and Schlegel 1844

Subspecies Prosciurillus leucomus subsp. hirsutus Hayman 1946

Subspecies Prosciurillus leucomus subsp. occidentalis Meyer 1898

Subspecies Prosciurillus leucomus subsp. tonkeanus Meyer 1896

Species Prosciurillus murinus (Müller and Schlegel 1844)

Subspecies Prosciurillus murinus subsp. murinus Müller and Schlegel 1844

Subspecies Prosciurillus murinus subsp. griseus Sody 1949

Subspecies Prosciurillus murinus subsp. necopinus Miller and Hollister 1921

Species Prosciurillus rosenbergii (Jentink 1879)

Species Prosciurillus weberi (Jentink 1890)

Discussion: Tribe Callosciurini according to Moore (1959); closely related to Sundasciurus (see Heaney, 1985). Reviewed by Moore (1958), who transferred leucomus from Callosciurus to this genus.

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 784, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316535

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Ellerman
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Rodentia
Family
Sciuridae
Genus
Prosciurillus
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Prosciurillus Ellerman, 1947 sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005

References

  • Moore, J. C. 1958. New genera of East Indian squirrels. American Museum Novitates, 1914: 1 - 5.
  • Hayman, R. W. 1946. Systematic notes on the genus Idiurus (Anomaluridae). Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 11, 13: 208 - 212.
  • Meyer, A. B. 1898. Ueber zwei Eichhornchenarten von Celebes. Abhandlungen und Berichte des Koniglichen Zoologischen und Anthropologisch-Ethnographischen Museums zu Dresden, 4: 1 - 3.
  • Moore, J. C. 1959. Relationships among the living squirrels of the Sciurinae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 118 (4): 157 - 206.