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Funisciurus Trouessart 1880

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Funisciurus Trouessart 1880

Funisciurus Trouessart 1880, Le Naturaliste, 2 (37): 293.

Type Species: Sciurus isabella Gray 1862

Species and subspecies: 9 species with 24 subspecies:

Species Funisciurus anerythrus Thomas 1890

Subspecies Funisciurus anerythrus subsp. anerythrus Thomas 1890

Subspecies Funisciurus anerythrus subsp. bandarum Thomas 1915

Subspecies Funisciurus anerythrus subsp. mystax De Winton 1898

Subspecies Funisciurus anerythrus subsp. raptorum Thomas 1903

Species Funisciurus bayonii Bocage 1890

Species Funisciurus carruthersi Thomas 1906

Subspecies Funisciurus carruthersi subsp. carruthersi Thomas 1906

Subspecies Funisciurus carruthersi subsp. birungensis Gyldenstolpe 1927

Subspecies Funisciurus carruthersi subsp. chrysippus Thomas 1923

Subspecies Funisciurus carruthersi subsp. tanganyikae Thomas 1909

Species Funisciurus congicus (Kuhl 1820)

Species Funisciurus isabella (Gray 1862)

Subspecies Funisciurus isabella subsp. isabella Gray 1862

Subspecies Funisciurus isabella subsp. dubosti Eisentraut 1969

Species Funisciurus lemniscatus (Le Conte 1857)

Subspecies Funisciurus lemniscatus subsp. lemniscatus Le Conte 1857

Subspecies Funisciurus lemniscatus subsp. mayumbicus Kershaw 1923

Species Funisciurus leucogenys (Waterhouse 1842)

Subspecies Funisciurus leucogenys subsp. leucogenys Waterhouse 1842

Subspecies Funisciurus leucogenys subsp. auriculatus Matschie 1891

Subspecies Funisciurus leucogenys subsp. oliviae Dollman 1911

Species Funisciurus pyrropus (F. Cuvier 1833)

Subspecies Funisciurus pyrropus subsp. pyrropus F. Cuvier 1833

Subspecies Funisciurus pyrropus subsp. akka De Winton 1895

Subspecies Funisciurus pyrropus subsp. leonis Thomas 1905

Subspecies Funisciurus pyrropus subsp. leucostigma Temminck 1853

Subspecies Funisciurus pyrropus subsp. mandingo Thomas 1903

Subspecies Funisciurus pyrropus subsp. nigrensis Thomas 1909

Subspecies Funisciurus pyrropus subsp. niveatus Thomas 1923

Subspecies Funisciurus pyrropus subsp. pembertoni Thomas 1904

Subspecies Funisciurus pyrropus subsp. talboti Thomas 1909

Species Funisciurus substriatus De Winton 1899

Discussion: Tribe Funambulini according to Moore (1959). Raised to full generic rank by Thomas (1897 b). This treatment follows Amtmann (1975), and Kingdon (1997). Recent molecular work suggests that Funisciurus is not closely related to Funambulus (Mercer and Roth, 2003). Instead, it should be considered a member of the Tribe Protoxerini, according to Steppan et al. (2004).

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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 791, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316535

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Trouessart
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Rodentia
Family
Sciuridae
Genus
Funisciurus
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genus
Taxonomic concept label
Funisciurus Trouessart, 1880 sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005

References

  • Thomas, O. 1890. On a collection of mammals obtained by Dr. Emin Pasha in central and eastern Africa. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1890: 443 - 450.
  • Thomas, O. 1915. List of mammals (exclusive of Ungulata) collected on the Upper Congo by Dr. Christy for the Congo Museum, Tervueren. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 8, 16: 465 - 481.
  • Thomas, O. 1903. Notes on Neotropical mammals of the genera Felis, Hapale, Oryzomys, Akodon, and Ctenomys, with descriptions of new species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 7, 12: 234 - 243.
  • Waterhouse, G. R. 1842 [1843]. Descriptions of a new species of quadrupeds collected by Mr. Fraser at Fernando Po. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1842: 124 - 130.
  • Dollman, G. 1911. On Arvicanthis abyssinicus and allied East-African species, with descriptions of four new forms. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 8, 8: 334 - 353.
  • Moore, J. C. 1959. Relationships among the living squirrels of the Sciurinae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 118 (4): 157 - 206.
  • Thomas, O. 1897 b [1898]. On the Mammals obtained by Mr. A. Whyte in Nyasaland, and presented to the British Museum by Sir H. H. Johnston, K. C. B.; being a fifth contribution to the mammal-fauna of Nyasaland. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1897: 924 - 938.
  • Amtmann, E. 1975. Family Sciuridae. Part 6. 1. Pp. 1 - 12, in The mammals of Africa: An identification manual (J. Meester and H. W. Setzer, eds.) [issued 10 Dec 1975]. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C., not continuously paginated.
  • Kingdon, J. 1997. The Kingdon field guide to African mammals. Nature World Academic Press, Harcourt Brace & Company, San Diego, 465 pp.
  • Mercer, J. M., and L. Roth. 2003. The effects of Cenozoic global change on squirrel phylogeny. Science, 299 (5612): 1568 - 1572.
  • Steppan, S. J., B. L. Storz, and R. S. Hoffmann. 2004. Nuclear DNA phylogeny of the squirrels (Mammalia: Rodentia) and the evolution of arboreality from c-myc and RAG 1. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 30: 703 - 719.