Sciuridae

Scuirids
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Rodentia Family: Sciuridae
Genera
Many: see text

The Sciurids or squirrels are a large family of rodents. It includes tree squirrels (including the Eurasian flying squirrels but not the African scaly-tailed flying squirrels, which are not sciurids). However it also includes ground squirrels and chipmunks, and the marmots, which include woodchucks and pikas. Scuirids are found in all continents except Australasia and Antarctica.

The following list of genera is non-authoritative, and has not been placed in an order that reflects current taxonomic or cladistic research.

• Tree squirrels
  • Aeretes, 1 species, the Groove-toothed flying squirrel, northeast China
  • Aeromys, 2 species, flying squirrels, Thailand to Borneo.
  • Belomys, 1 species, the hairy-footed flying squirrel, southeast Asia.
  • Callosciurus, 15 species, Asia.
  • Epixerus (giant palm squirrels), 2 species, western Africa
  • Eupetaurus, 1 species, the woolly flying squirrel, Kashmir; rare
  • Exilisciurus (pygmy squirrels), 6 species, Borneo and Phillipines.
  • Funambulus,(palm squirrels), 5 species, India
  • Funisciurus, 12 species, central and southern Africa
  • Glaucomys (American flying squirrels), 2 species, North America.
  • Glyphotes (sculptor squirrels), 2 species, Borneo
  • Heliosciurus (sun squirrels), 3 species, Africa
  • Hylopetes (flying squirrels), 7 species, southeast Asia
  • Hyosciurus, 1 species, the Celebes long-nosed squirrel, Sulawesi (Indonesia)
  • Iomys, 1 species, Horsfield's flying squirrel, Malaysia and Indonesia
  • Microsciurus (pygmy squirrels), 5 species, southern Central America and Northern South America
  • Myosciurus, 1 species, the African pygmy squirrel, Cameroon and Gabon; the smallest sciurid.
  • Nannosciurus, 1 species, the Black-eared pygmy squirrel, Indonesia
  • Paraxerus (bush squirrels), 12 species, Africa
  • Petaurillus (pygmy flying squirrels), 3 species, Borneo and Malaya
  • Petaurista (giant flying squirrels), 5 species, southeast Asia
  • Petinomys (flying squirrels), 9 species, southeast Asia
  • Prosciurillus (dwarf squirrels), 5 species, Sulawesi (Indonesia)
  • Protoxerus (giant squirrels), 2 species, Liberia to Kenya and Angola
  • Pteromys (flying squirrels), 2 species, Finland to Japan.
  • Pteromyscus, 1 species, the Smoky flying squirrel, southern Thailand to Borneo.
  • Ratufa, 4 species, southeast Asia; the largest tree squirrels
  • Rhinosciurus, 1 species, the Shrew-faced or Long-nosed squirrel, Thailand, Malaya, Sumatra, and Borneo
  • Rubrisciurus, 1 species, the Red-bellied squirrel, Sulawesi (Indonesia)
  • Sciurillus, 1 species, the Neotropical pygmy squirrel, the Guianas, Northeast Brazil, and the Amazon basin of Peru
  • Sciurus (typical tree squirrels), 31 speices, Europe, the Middle East, northern Asia, North America, northern South America; the largest genus in the family, including the gray squirrels, fox squirrel and Eurasian red squirrel.
  • Sundasciurus, 13 species, from Thailand to Indonesia and southern Philipines
  • Syntheosciurus (mountain squirrels), 2 species, Panama and Costa Rica; rare
  • Tamiasciurus (pine squirrels), 2 species (the American red and Douglas squirrels), northern and western USA and most of Canada and Alaska.
  • Trogopterus, 1 species, the Complex-toothed flying squirrel, China

• Ground squirrels
  • Ammospermophilus (Antelope squirrels), 5 species, Southwestern United states.
  • Atlantoxerus, 1 species, the Barbary ground squirrel, Morocco and Algeria.
  • Cynomys (Prairie dogs), 5 species, North Dakota to central Mexico
  • Dremomys, 4 species, southeast Asia.
  • Lariscus (striped ground squirrels), 4 species, southern Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia.
  • Marmota (marmots), 14 species
  • Menetes, 1 species, Berdmore's ground squirrel, Burma to Indochina and Thailand.
  • Rheithrosciurus, 1 species, the Tufted ground squirrel, Borneo
  • Spermophilopsis, 1 species, the long-clawed ground squirrel, Middle East.
  • Spermophilus, 36 species, from western Europe to Siberia and Alaska to northern Mexico; the largest genus of ground squirrels
  • Tamias (chipmunks), 23 species, northern Mexico, most of the USA, Canada, and Siberia.
  • Tamiops,Genus name for 4 species of striped squirrel found in China, Vietnam, Laos, Taiwan, Nepal, Burma, Malaya, and Cambodia.
  • Xerus, 4 species, Africa except for the Sahara