Sciurini

Sciurini
Temporal range: Late Eocene–present[1]
Eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Sciuridae
Subfamily: Sciurinae
Tribe: Sciurini
G. Fischer, 1817
Type genus
Sciurus
Genera
Diversity[2]
Five living genera and about forty species.

Sciurini (/sɪˈjuːrɪniː/) is a tribe that includes about forty species of squirrels,[2] mostly from the Americas. It includes five living genera—the American dwarf squirrels, Microsciurus; the Bornean Rheithrosciurus; the widespread American and Eurasian tree squirrels of the genus Sciurus, which includes some of the best known squirrel species; the Central American Syntheosciurus; and the American pine squirrels, Tamiasciurus. Like other arboreal squirrels, they are sometimes referred to as tree squirrels.[3]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference EK775 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ a b Thorington and Hoffmann, 2005, p. 754
  3. ^ Thorington and Ferrell, 2006, p. 18