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GENUS Funambulus

Author:Lesson, 1835.
Citation:Illustr. Zool.: pl. 43.
Type Species:Sciurus indicus Lesson, 1835 (= Sciurus palmarum Linnaeus, 1776).
Comments:Tribe Funambulini according to Moore (1959:170). Reviewed by Moore (1960) and Moore and Tate (1965). Includes Funambulus and Prasadsciurus as subgenera. Prasad (1957) proposed a separate subfamily for the genus, based on the supposedly unique anatomy of the male reproductive tract. Trends in evolution of karyotypes analyzed by Aswathanarayana (1987). Grouped with African squirrels by Moore (1959). However, recent molecular studies suggest that Funambulus is a basal member of the Callosciurinae (Mercer and Roth, 2003), as suggested earlier on the basis of bacular morphology (Pocock, 1923: 239).
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SUBGENUS Funambulus

SPECIES layardi

SUBSPECIES layardi

SUBSPECIES dravidianus

SPECIES palmarum

SUBSPECIES palmarum

SUBSPECIES brodiei

SUBSPECIES robertsoni

SPECIES sublineatus

SUBSPECIES sublineatus

SUBSPECIES obscurus

SPECIES tristriatus

SUBSPECIES tristriatus

SUBSPECIES numarius

SUBGENUS Prasadsciurus

SPECIES pennantii

SUBSPECIES pennantii

SUBSPECIES argentescens

Synonyms:

    Palmista Gray, 1867
    Tamiodes Pocock, 1923

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