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Rodentia (rats & rodents)
Callosciurinae
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Statistics of barcoding coverage:
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) Stats
Specimen Records:72
Specimens with Sequences:66
Specimens with Barcodes:64
Species:15
Species With Barcodes:14
Public Records:24
Public Species:9
Public BINs:13
Callosciurinae:
The Callosciurinae are an Asiatic subfamily of squirrels containing over 60 species, mostly found in South East Asia. It is named after the genus Callosciurus, which means beautiful squirrels".
Classification[edit]
- Family Sciuridae[1]
- Subfamily Callosciurinae
- Tribe Callosciurini
- Callosciurus - Beautiful squirrels (15 species)
- Dremomys - Red-cheeked squirrels or Asian montane squirrels (six species)
- Exilisciurus - Asian pygmy squirrels (three species)
- Glyphotes - sculptor squirrel
- Hyosciurus - Long-nosed squirrels (two species)
- Lariscus - Striped ground squirrel (four species)
- Menetes - Berdmore's ground squirrel or Indochinese ground squirrel
- Nannosciurus - Black-eared pygmy squirrel
- Prosciurillus- Dwarf squirrels or Sulawesi tree squirrels (five species)
- Rhinosciurus - Shrew-faced squirrel
- Rubrisciurus - Red-bellied squirrel or Sulawesi giant squirrel
- Sundasciurus - Sunda tree squirrels (two subgenera, 15 species)
- Tamiops - Asiatic striped squirrels (four species)
- Tribe Funambulini
- Funambulus - palm squirrels (two subgenera, five species)
- Tribe Callosciurini
- Subfamily Callosciurinae
References[edit]
- ^ Thorington, R. W. Jr. and R. S. Hoffman. 2005. Family Sciuridae. pp. 754–818 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
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