It is based on the third edition of Mammal Species of the World (Wilson and Reeder, 2005) and incorporates changes made since then in the systematic literature. In addition, it strives to incorporate all mammal species that are known to have existed during the Holocene, so as to give a more complete picture of Recent mammal diversity.
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Comments: Musser et al. (2010)[1] noted that Nannosciurinae Major, 1895, has priority over Callosciurinae Pocock, 1923, used previously. Classification into tribes and subtribes follows Musser et al. (2010)[1].
Original description: Musser, G. G.; Durden, L. A.; Holden, M. E.; Light, J. E. (2010). "Systematic Review of Endemic Sulawesi Squirrels (Rodentia, Sciuridae), with Descriptions of New Species of Associated Sucking Lice (Insecta, Anoplura), and Phylogenetic and Zoogeographic Assessments of Sciurid Lice". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 339: 1–260. doi:10.1206/695.1. hdl:2246/6067.
Original description: Thomas, O. (1887). "XIII.—Description of two new squirrels from North Borneo". Journal of Natural History Series 5. 20 (116): 127–129. doi:10.1080/00222938709460021.
Original description: Moore, Joseph Curtis (1959). "Relationships among the living squirrels of the Sciurinae". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 118 (4). hdl:2246/1265.
Original description: Moore, Joseph Curtis (1959). "Relationships among the living squirrels of the Sciurinae". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 118 (4). hdl:2246/1265.
Comments: This name was not listed by Thorington & Hoffmann (2005)[2]. Populations of this species were formerly included in P. leucomus (Musser et al., 2010)[1].
Original description: Thomas, O. (1887). "XIII.—Description of two new squirrels from North Borneo". Journal of Natural History Series 5. 20 (116): 127–129. doi:10.1080/00222938709460021.
Original description: Moore, Joseph Curtis (1959). "Relationships among the living squirrels of the Sciurinae". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 118 (4). hdl:2246/1265.
Original description: Moore, Joseph Curtis (1959). "Relationships among the living squirrels of the Sciurinae". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 118 (4). hdl:2246/1265.
Original description: Merriam, C.H. (1901). "Seven new mammals from Mexico, including a new genus of rodents". Proceedings of the Washington Academy of Sciences. 3: 559–563.
Original description: Allen, J. A..; Buller, Audley Cecil (1889). "Notes on a collection of mammals from southern Mexico, with descriptions of new species of the genera Sciurus, Tamias and Sigmodon". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 2 (16). hdl:2246/1647.((cite journal)): CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
Original description: Allen, J. A..; Buller, Audley Cecil (1889). "Notes on a collection of mammals from southern Mexico, with descriptions of new species of the genera Sciurus, Tamias and Sigmodon". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 2 (16). hdl:2246/1647.((cite journal)): CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
Original description: Gündüz, İSlam; Jaarola, Maarit; Tez, Coskun; Yeniyurt, Can; Polly, P. David; Searle, Jeremy B. (2007). "Multigenic and morphometric differentiation of ground squirrels (Spermophilus, Scuiridae, Rodentia) in Turkey, with a description of a new species". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 43 (3): 916–935. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2007.02.021. PMID17500011.
Comments: A new species. Includes another newly described species, S. torosensis Özkurt et al. (2007)[8]; see Gündüz et al. (2007b)[9].
Original description: Yensen, Eric (1991). "Taxonomy and Distribution of the Idaho Ground Squirrel, Spermophilus brunneus". Journal of Mammalogy. 72 (3). American Society of Mammalogists: 583–600. doi:10.2307/1382142. JSTOR1382142.
Comments: Split from U. brunneus (Hoisington-Lopez et al., 2012)[10].
Original description: Moore, Joseph Curtis (1959). "Relationships among the living squirrels of the Sciurinae". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 118 (4). hdl:2246/1265.
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^Álvarez-Castañeda, Sergio Ticul (2007). "Systematics of the Antelope Ground Squirrel (Ammospermophilus) from Islands Adjacent to the Baja California Peninsula". Journal of Mammalogy. 88 (5): 1160–1169. doi:10.1644/06-MAMM-A-065R3.1.
^Brandler, Oleg V.; Lyapunova, Elena A.; Boeskorov, Gennady G. (2008). "Comparative karyology of Palearctic marmots (Marmota, Sciuridae, Rodentia)". Mammalia. 72: 24–34. doi:10.1515/MAMM.2008.005.
^Álvarez-Castañeda, S.T.; Cortés-Calva, P. (2011). "Genetic evaluation of the Baja California rock squirrel Otospermophilus atricapillus (Rodentia: Sciuridae)". Zootaxa. 3138: 35–51.
^Ermakov, O.A.; Titov, S.V.; Savientsky, A.B.; Surin, V.I.; Zborovsky, S.S.; Lyapunova, E.A.; Brandler, O.V.; Formozov, N.A. (2006). "Molecular-genetic and palaeoecological arguments for conspecificity of little (Spermophilus pygmaeus) and Caucasian mountain (S. musicus) ground squirrels". Zoologičeskij žurnal. 85 (12): 1474–1483.
^Özkurt, Ş.Ö.; Sözen, M.; Yiğit, N.; Kandemir, I.; Çolak, R.; Gharkheloo, M.M.; Çolak, E. (2007). "Taxonomic status of the genus Spermophilus (Mammalia: Rodentia) in Turkey and Iran with description of a new species". Zootaxa. 1529: 1–15.
^Gündüz, İ.; Jaarola, M.; Tez, C.; Yeniyurt, C.; Polly, P.D.; Searle, J.B. (2007). "Spermophilus torosensis Özkurt et al., 2007 (Sciuridae, Rodentia) is a subjective junior synonym of Spermophilus taurensis Gündüz et al., 2007, a newly described ground squirrel from the Taurus Mountains of southern Turkey". Zootaxa. 1663: 67–68.
^Hoisington-Lopez, J. L.; Waits, L. P.; Sullivan, J. (2012). "Species limits and integrated taxonomy of the Idaho ground squirrel (Urocitellus brunneus): Genetic and ecological differentiation". Journal of Mammalogy. 93 (2): 589. doi:10.1644/11-MAMM-A-021.1.
^Fernández, J. S. A. (2012). "Phylogenetics and biogeography of the microendemic rodentXerospermophilus perotensis(Perote ground squirrel) in the Oriental Basin of Mexico". Journal of Mammalogy. 93 (6): 1431–1439. doi:10.1644/11-MAMM-A-409.1.
^Brugière, D.; Fleury, M. C.; Colyn, M. (2005). "Structure of the squirrel community in the Forêt des Abeilles, central Gabon: Rediscovery and revalidation of Funisciurus duchaillui Sanborn, 1953". Mammalia. 69 (2): 223–231. doi:10.1515/mamm.2005.019.