Funambulus Lesson, 1835

Robert S. Hoffmann & Charles G. Anderson, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Sciuridae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 419-465 : 426

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Funambulus Lesson, 1835 View in CoL . Illustr. Zool., pl. 43.

TYPE SPECIES: Sciurus indicus Lesson, 1835 (= Sciurus palmarum Linnaeus, 1776 ).

SYNONYMS: Paimista Gray, 1867; Prasadsciurus Moore and Tate, 1965 ; Tamiodes Pocock, 1923 .

COMMENTS: Tribe Funambulini ( 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 distinctive anatomy of the male reproductive tract. Trends in evolution of karyotypes analyzed by Aswathanarayana (1987).