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Taxon: Family Sciuridae Batsch, 1788 - squirrels, chipmunks, marmots, and prairie dogs (mammal)
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Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Animalia - (Phylum) Chordata - (Class) Mammalia - (Order) Rodentia

Subsequent positions

Sciurida (Infraorder) Brandt, 1855 Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 121.

Original entries

Questionably Cedromurinae (Subfamily) Korth & Emry, 1991
Questionably Pteromyinae (Subfamily) Brandt, 1855
Questionably Sciurinae (Subfamily) Batsch, 1788
Questionably Sciurion (Genus) Skwara, 1986
Questionably Vulcanisciurus (Genus) Lavocat, 1973

Current position

Sciuroidea (Superfamily) Batsch, 1788 Ref: R.L. Carroll, 1988: 636.

Alternative positions

Rodentia (Order) Bowdich, 1821 Ref: G.B. Corbet & J.E. Hill, 1991: 136.
Sciurida (Infraorder) Brandt, 1855 Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 121. [new position]
Sciurognathi (Suborder) (Tullberg, 1899) Ref: R.S. Hoffmann et al., 1993: 419.
Sciuromorpha (Suborder) Brandt, 1855 Ref: C.J. Burgin et al., 2020: table 2 (p. 27).

Historical positions

Sciuromorpha (Suborder) Brandt, 1855 Ref: C.J. Burgin et al., 2020: table 2 (p. 27).
Sciuromorpha (Suborder) Brandt, 1855 Ref: D.E. Wilson & D.M. Reeder, 2011: 58.
Sciurida (Infraorder) Brandt, 1855 Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 121. [new position]
Sciurognathi (Suborder) (Tullberg, 1899) Ref: R.S. Hoffmann et al., 1993: 419; 7.
Rodentia (Order) Bowdich, 1821 Ref: G.B. Corbet & J.E. Hill, 1991: 136.
Sciuroidea (Superfamily) Batsch, 1788 Ref: R.L. Carroll, 1988: 636.
Sciuromorpha (Suborder) Brandt, 1855 Ref: A.F. DeBlase, 1982: 1046-1047.
Sciuromorpha (Suborder) Brandt, 1855 Ref: T.I. Storer et al., 1979
Sciuroidea (Superfamily) Batsch, 1788 Ref: I. Eibl-Eibesfeldt et al., 1974: 581.

Number of Subtaxa

2024 Available in Systema Naturae 2000 51g;275s;28ss; †35g;17s
1989-present Systema Naturae 2000 [51g;274s; †35g]
2011 D.E. Wilson & D.M. Reeder: 58 58g;285s
1997 M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell [51g; †35g]
1993 R.S. Hoffmann et al. 50g;273s
1991 G.B. Corbet & J.E. Hill [49g];~254[259]s
1982 A.F. DeBlase 2sf;[51g]
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