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Funambulus Lesson 1835

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Funambulus Lesson, 1835. Illustr. Zool., pl. 43.

TYPE SPECIES: Sciurus indicus Lesson, 1835 (= Sciurus palmarum Linnaeus, 1776).

SYNONYMS: Paimista Gray, 1867; Prasadsciurus Moore and Tate, 1965; Tamiodes Pocock, 1923.

COMMENTS: Tribe Funambulini (Moore, 1959:170). Reviewed by Moore (1960) and Moore and Tate (1965). Includes Funambulus and Prasadsciurus as subgenera. Prasad (1957) proposed a separate subfamily for the genus, based on the distinctive anatomy of the male reproductive tract. Trends in evolution of karyotypes analyzed by Aswathanarayana (1987).

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Published as part of Robert S. Hoffmann & Charles G. Anderson, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Sciuridae, pp. 419-465 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 426, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353130

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Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7353130 (DOI)
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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Lesson
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Rodentia
Family
Sciuridae
Genus
Funambulus
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Funambulus Lesson, 1835 sec. Hoffmann & Anderson, 1993

References

  • Moore, J. C., and G. H. H. Tate. 1965. A study of the diurnal squirrels, Sciurinae, of the Indian and Indochinese subregions. Fieldiana: Zoology, 48: 1 - 351.
  • Pocock, R. I. 1923. The classification of Sciuridae. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1923 (1): 209 - 246.
  • Moore, J. C. 1959. Relationships among the living squirrels of the Sciurinae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 118 (4): 157 - 206.
  • Moore, J. C. 1960. Squirrel geography of the Indian subregion. Systematic Zoology, 9: 1 - 17.
  • Prasad, M. R. N. 1957. Male genital tract of the Indian and Ceylonese palm squirrels and its bearing on the systematics of the Sciuridae. Acta Zoologica, 38: 1 - 26.
  • Aswathanarayana, N. V. 1987. Evolutionary trends in the genus Funabulus (Rodentia- - Sciuridae). Current Science (Bangalore), 56 (24): 1298 - 1301.