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<mods:namePart>Robert S. Hoffmann</mods:namePart>
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Family
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COMMENTS:
<bibRefCitation author="Ellerman, J. R." box="[480,752,595,634]" pageId="0" pageNumber="419" refId="ref92817" refString="Ellerman, J. R. 1940. The families and genera of living rodents. Vol. 1. Rodents other than Muridae. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 689 pp." year="1940">Ellerman (1940)</bibRefCitation>
reviewed the history of sciurid classification. The first modern classification (
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) recognized six subfamilies:
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, Tamiasciurinae, Funambulinae, Callosciurinae,
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, and Marmotinae.
<bibRefCitation author="Simpson, G. G." box="[1381,1646,680,718]" pageId="0" pageNumber="419" refId="ref328876" refString="Simpson, G. G. 1945. The principles of classification and a classification of mammals. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 85: 1 - 350." year="1945">Simpson (1945)</bibRefCitation>
recognized the same taxa, but all at the tribal level.
<bibRefCitation author="Ellerman, J. R." box="[1077,1349,721,759]" pageId="0" pageNumber="419" refId="ref92817" refString="Ellerman, J. R. 1940. The families and genera of living rodents. Vol. 1. Rodents other than Muridae. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 689 pp." year="1940">Ellerman (1940)</bibRefCitation>
avoided formal designation, but recognized seven &quot;sections&quot; in the
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&quot;group, &quot; which often do not conform with the above.
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recognized Simpson's six tribes and, in addition,
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and Paraxerini for certain genera that had previously been included in
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.
<bibRefCitation author="Black, C. C." box="[619,828,889,927]" pageId="0" pageNumber="419" refId="ref33045" refString="Black, C. C. 1963. A review of the North American Tertiary Sciuridae. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, 130: 109 - 248." year="1963">Black (1963)</bibRefCitation>
elevated Tamiini to tribal level (previously in
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Moore" baseAuthorityYear="1959" box="[1643,1832,889,927]" class="Mammalia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="0" pageNumber="453" phylum="Chordata" rank="tribe" tribe="Marmotini">Marmotini</taxonomicName>
).
<bibRefCitation author="Gromov, I. M. &amp; D. I. Bibikov &amp; N. I. Kalabukhov &amp; M. N. N. Meier" box="[374,729,931,969]" pageId="0" pageNumber="419" refId="ref130487" refString="Gromov, I. M., D. I. Bibikov, N. I. Kalabukhov, and M. N. N. Meier. 1965. Fauna SSSR, Mlekopitayushchie, tom. 3, vyp. 2 [Fauna of the U. S. S. R. Mammals. vol. 3, No. 2]. Nazemnye belich'e [Ground Squirrels]. Nauka, Moscow-Leningrad, 467 pp. (in Russian)." year="1965">Gromov et al. (1965)</bibRefCitation>
elevated the ground squirrels to subfamily rank, Marmotinae, which included the tribes Tamiini Black,
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Gromov, Citellini Gromov,
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Simpson (part), and
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Gromov. He also recognized the subfamilies
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and
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, but did not treat any other groups.
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submerged
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in
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and Tamiini in
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. They also (1982) described the oldest known sciurid,
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,
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which they interpreted as an arboreal form similar to
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from which both flying squirrels and ground squirrels have been derived. These authors treated flying squirrels as a monophyletic sister group to other squirrels, either as a family (
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) or subfamily (other authors). The monophyly of flying squirrels has been both supported (
<bibRefCitation author="Thorington, R. W., Jr." box="[577,869,1348,1386]" pageId="0" pageNumber="419" refId="ref356039" refString="Thorington, R. W., Jr. 1984. Flying squirrels are monophyletic. Science, 225: 1048 - 1050." year="1984">Thorington, 1984</bibRefCitation>
) and challenged (
<bibRefCitation author="Hight, M. E. &amp; M. Goodman &amp; W. Prychodko" box="[1186,1488,1348,1386]" pageId="0" pageNumber="419" refId="ref151238" refString="Hight, M. E., M. Goodman, and W. Prychodko. 1974. Immunological studies of the Sciuridae. Systematic Zoology, 23: 12 - 25." year="1974">Hight et al., 1974</bibRefCitation>
). Heaney (1985) recommended that the subtribe
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of
<bibRefCitation author="Moore, J. C." box="[1197,1425,1389,1427]" pageId="0" pageNumber="419" refId="ref246108" refString="Moore, J. C. 1959. Relationships among the living squirrels of the Sciurinae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 118 (4): 157 - 206." year="1959">Moore (1959)</bibRefCitation>
be discarded because it lacks defining characters, and that the component genera
<emphasis box="[1381,1820,1431,1470]" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="419">
(
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,
<taxonomicName authorityName="Ellerman" authorityYear="1947" box="[1601,1813,1431,1470]" class="Mammalia" family="Sciuridae" genus="Prosciurillus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="0" pageNumber="419" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">Prosciurillus</taxonomicName>
,
</emphasis>
<emphasis box="[374,577,1473,1511]" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="419">Rubisciurus,</emphasis>
and
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)
</emphasis>
be retained in tribe Callosciurini
<bibRefCitation author="Simpson, G. G." box="[1462,1716,1473,1511]" pageId="0" pageNumber="419" refId="ref328876" refString="Simpson, G. G. 1945. The principles of classification and a classification of mammals. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 85: 1 - 350." year="1945">Simpson, 1945</bibRefCitation>
. A catolog of Indian sciurids was presented by
<bibRefCitation author="Agrawal, V. C. &amp; S. Chakraborty" box="[1142,1712,1515,1554]" pageId="0" pageNumber="419" refId="ref2208" refString="Agrawal, V. C., and S. Chakraborty. 1979. Catalogue of mammals in the Zoological Survey of India. Part 1. Sciuridae. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, 74: 333 - 481." year="1979">Agrawal and Chakraborty (1979)</bibRefCitation>
.
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