Sciurus

Sciurus carolinensis

Animalia — Chordata

Classis : Mammalia
Ordo : Rodentia
Subordo : Sciuromorpha
Familia : Sciuridae
Subfamilia : Sciurinae
Tribus : Sciurini
Genus : Sciurus
Linnaeus, 1758

Palaeontologia

14–0 m.a.: Miocaenum medium > Recens

Subdivisiones: Subgenera

Tenes

Sciurus
Hesperosciurus
Otosciurus
Guerlinguetus
Hadrosciurus

Urosciurus

Sciurus (Graece σκίουρος < σκιά 'umbra' + οὐρά 'cauda') est genus Sciuridarum, rodens medii magnitudinis, caudam comatam habens, quod in arbore habitat et saepe nuces et semina edit. Species Sciuri per orbem terrarum incolunt.^[1]

Alia rodentia familiae Sciuridarum aliquando vulgo "sciuri" appellantur, ut Marmotini, "sciuri terrestres", et Pteromyini, "sciuri volantes".

↑ Thorington, R.W., Jr.; Hoffman, R.S. (2005). "Genus Sciurus". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 758–765. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.

[Thorington-1] Thorington, R.W., Jr.; Hoffman, R.S. (2005). "Genus Sciurus". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 758–765. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.

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