Protoxerus Forsyth Major, 1893

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 : 436

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Protoxerus Forsyth Major, 1893 View in CoL . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1893:189.

TYPE SPECIES: Sciurus stangeri Waterhouse, 1842 .

SYNONYMS: Allosciurus Conisbee, 1953 .

COMMENTS: Tribe Protoxerini ( Moore, 1959) . Includes Allosciurus (replaced Myrsilas Thomas, 1909, which was preoccupied by Myrsilas Stài, 1865 [ Hemiptera ]) and Protoxerus as subgenera. Originally a subgenus of Xerus, raised to full generic rank by Thomas (1897b).