Sciuridae

Scuirids
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Rodentia Family: Sciuridae
Genera
Many: see text

The Sciurids or squirrels are a large family of rodents. It includes tree squirrels (including the Eurasian flying squirrels but not the African scaly-tailed flying squirrels, which are not sciurids). However it also includes ground squirrels and chipmunks, and animals like woodchucks, marmots and pikas. Scuirids are found in all continents except Australasia and Antarctica.

The following list of genera is non-authoritative, and has not been placed in an order that reflects current taxonomic or cladistic research.

• Tree squirrels
  • Aeretes, 1 species, the Groove-toothed flying squirrel, northeast China
  • Aeromys, 2 species, flying squirrels, Thailand to Borneo.
  • Belomys, 1 species, the hairy-footed flying squirrel, southeast Asia.
  • Callosciurus, 15 species, Asia.
  • Epixerus (giant palm squirrels), 2 species, western Africa
  • Eupetaurus, 1 species, the woolly flying squirrel, Kashmir.
  • Exilisciurus (pygmy squirrels), 6 species, Borneo and Phillipines.
  • Funambulus,(palm squirrels), 5 species, India
  • Funisciurus, 12 species, central and southern Africa
  • Glaucomys (American flying squirrels), 2 species, North America.
  • Glyphotes (sculptor squirrels), 2 species, Borneo
  • Heliosciurus (sun squirrels), 3 species, Africa
  • Hylopetes (flying squirrels), 7 species, southeast Asia
  • Hyosciurus, 1 species, the Celebes long-nosed squirrel, Sulawesi(Indonesia)
  • Iomys, 1 species, Horsfield's flying squirrel, Malaysia and Indonesia

• Ground squirrels
  • Ammospermophilus (Antelope squirrels), 5 species, Southwestern United states.
  • Atlantoxerus, 1 species, the Barbary ground squirrel, Morocco and Algeria.
  • Cynomys (Prairie dogs), 5 species, North Dakota to central Mexico
  • Dremomys, 4 species, southeast Asia.
  • Lariscus,
  • Menetes,
  • Rheithrosciurus,
  • Spermophilus,
  • Tamiops,
  • Xerus,