Subfamily
Sciurinae (Typical and flying squirrels)
Tamiasciurus douglasii. Photo: (c) John Moyer, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
Sciurinae is a subfamily of squirrels in the (family Sciuridae), uniting the flying squirrels with certain related tree squirrels. Older sources place the flying squirrels in a separate subfamily (Pteromyinae) and unite all remaining sciurids into the subfamily Sciurinae, but this has been strongly refuted by genetic studies.
- Humboldt Life
- Kingdom: Animalia (Animals)
- Phylum: Chordata (Chordates)
- Subphylum: Vertebrata (Vertebrates)
- Class: Mammalia (Mammals)
- Subclass: Theria (Therians)
- Infraclass: Placentalia (Placental mammals)
- Superorder: Euarchontoglires (Primates, rodents, and allies)
- Order: Rodentia (Rodents)
- Suborder: Sciuromorpha (Squirrels, dormice, and mountain beavers)
- Family: Sciuridae (Squirrels)
- Subfamily: Sciurinae (Typical and flying squirrels)
- Family: Sciuridae (Squirrels)
- Suborder: Sciuromorpha (Squirrels, dormice, and mountain beavers)
- Order: Rodentia (Rodents)
- Superorder: Euarchontoglires (Primates, rodents, and allies)
- Infraclass: Placentalia (Placental mammals)
- Subclass: Theria (Therians)
- Class: Mammalia (Mammals)
- Subphylum: Vertebrata (Vertebrates)
- Phylum: Chordata (Chordates)
- Kingdom: Animalia (Animals)
