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Taxon: Tribe Protoxerini Moore, 1959 (mammal)

Entity:

Concise hierarchy

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

Original position

Questionably Sciurinae (Subfamily) Batsch, 1788

Original entries

Questionably †Kubwaxerus (Genus) Cifelli, Ibui, Jacobs & Thorington, 1986

Subsequent entries

*Epixerus* (Genus) Thomas, 1909
*Heliosciurus* (Genus) Trouessart, 1880
*Protoxerus* (Genus) Forsyth Major, 1893

Current position

Sciurinae (Subfamily) Batsch, 1788

Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 126.

Historical positions

*Sciurinae* (Subfamily) Batsch, 1788	Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 126.
*Sciurinae* (Subfamily) Batsch, 1788	Ref: A.F. DeBlase, 1982: 1047.
*Sciurinae* (Subfamily) Batsch, 1788	Ref: I. Eibl-Eibesfeldt et al., 1974: 583.

Number of Subtaxa

2024	Available in Systema Naturae 2000	3g;10s; †1g
1989-present	Systema Naturae 2000	[3g;10s; †1g]
1997	M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell	[3g; †1g]

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