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GENUS Protoxerus

Author:Forsyth Major, 1893.
Citation:Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1893: 189.
Type Species:Sciurus stangeri Waterhouse, 1842.
Comments:Tribe Protoxerini (Moore, 1959). Includes Allosciurus (replaced Myrsilas Thomas, 1909, which was preoccupied by Myrsilas Stål, 1865 [Hemiptera]) and Protoxerus as subgenera. Originally a subgenus of Xerus, raised to full generic rank by Thomas (1897b).
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SUBGENUS Protoxerus

SPECIES stangeri

SUBSPECIES stangeri

SUBSPECIES bea

SUBSPECIES centricola

SUBSPECIES cooperi

SUBSPECIES eborivorus

SUBSPECIES kabobo

SUBSPECIES kwango

SUBSPECIES loandae

SUBSPECIES nigeriae

SUBSPECIES personatus

SUBSPECIES signatus

SUBSPECIES temminckii

SUBGENUS Allosciurus

SPECIES aubinnii

SUBSPECIES aubinnii

SUBSPECIES salae

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