Rubrisciurus Ellerman, 1954 . In Laurie and Hill, 1954, Land Mammals of New Guinea, Celebes, and Adjacent Islands, p. 94.

COMMENT: Sometimes considered a subgenus of Callosciurus; see Laurie and Hill, 1954:93; but see also Moore, 1959, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 1 18(4): 176, Moore, 1961, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 122(1): 8, and McLaughlin, 1967, in Anderson and Jones, p. 214, who considered it a distinct genus.

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