Sciurinae

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{{Taxobox | color = pink | name = Sciurinae | fossil_range = Late Eocene - Recent | image = Sciuridae Poas1.jpg | image_width = 250px | image_caption = Syntheosciurus brochus | regnum = Animalia | phylum = Chordata | subphylum = Vertebrata | classis = Mammalia | ordo = Rodentia | familia = Sciuridae | subfamilia = Sciurinae | subfamilia_authority = Hemprich, 1820 | subdivision_ranks = Genera | subdivision = See text. }}

The Sciurinae is a subfamily of squirrel (family Sciuridae).

Genera

Tree squirrels

• Callosciurus, 15 species, Asia.
• Epixerus (giant palm squirrels), 2 species, western Africa.
• Exilisciurus (pygmy squirrels), 6 species, Borneo and the Philippines.
• Funambulus (palm squirrels), 5 species, India.
• Funisciurus, 12 species, central and southern Africa.
• Glyphotes (sculptor squirrels), 2 species, Borneo.
• Heliosciurus (sun squirrels), 3 species, Africa.
• Hyosciurus, 1 species, the Celebes Long-nosed Squirrel, Sulawesi (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.
• Prosciurillus (dwarf squirrels), 5 species, Sulawesi (Indonesia).
• Protoxerus (giant squirrels), 2 species, Liberia to Kenya and Angola.
• Ratufa, 4 species, southeast Asia; the largest tree squirrels.
• Rhinosciurus, 1 species, the Shrew-faced Squirrel 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 species, 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 Philippines.
• Syntheosciurus (mountain squirrels), 2 species, Panama and Costa Rica; rare.
• Tamiasciurus (pine squirrels), 2 species (the American Red Squirrel and Douglas Squirrel), northern and western USA and most of Canada and Alaska.

Ground squirrels

• Ammospermophilus (Antelope squirrels), five species, southwestern USA and northern Mexico.
• Atlantoxerus, 1 species, Barbary Ground Squirrel, Morocco and Algeria.
• Cynomys (Prairie dogs), five species, North Dakota to central Mexico.
• Dremomys, five species, southeast Asia.
• Lariscus (striped ground squirrels), four species, southern Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia.
• Marmota (marmots), 14 species.
• Menetes, 1 species, Berdmore's Ground Squirrel, Indochina.
• Rheithrosciurus, 1 species, Tufted Ground Squirrel, Borneo. Also Groove-toothed squirrel - Rheithrosciurus macrotis
• Spermophilopsis, one species, 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 (striped squirrels), four species, China, Vietnam, Laos, Taiwan, Nepal, Burma, Malaya, and Cambodia.
• Xerus, four species, sub-Saharan Africa.de:Erd- und Baumhörnchen

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