Anomalurus
{{Short description|Genus of rodents}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| fossil_range = Middle Miocene to Recent
| image = AnomalurusBeecroftiWolf.jpg
| image_caption = Anomalurus beecrofti
| parent_authority = Gervais, 1849
| taxon = Anomalurus
| authority = Waterhouse, 1843
| type_species_authority = Waterhouse, 1843
| type_species = Anomalurus fraseri{{cite book | author1 = Jonathan Kingdon | author2 = David Happold | author3 = Thomas Butynski | author4 =Michael Hoffmann | author5 = Meredith Happold | author6 = Jan Kalina| display-authors = 3 | title = Mammals of Africa, Volumes 1-6 | year = 2013 | publisher = A&C Black| isbn = 978-1408189962 | page = 603 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=B_07noCPc4kC&q=Anomalurus+type+species&pg=PA603}}
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision =
| synonyms =
Anomalurops Matschie, 1914
}}
Anomalurus is the largest genus in the rodent family Anomaluridae, with four species.{{MSW3|id=13100004}} It is the only genus in the subfamily Anomalurinae.
Species
- A. beecrofti - Beecroft's scaly-tailed squirrel
- A. derbianus - Lord Derby's scaly-tailed squirrel
- A. pelii - Pel's scaly-tailed squirrel
- A. pusillus - dwarf scaly-tailed squirrel
Beecroft's scaly-tailed squirrel, Anomalurus beecrofti, is sometimes moved to its own genus, Anomalurops, but Dieterlen (2005) and other authorities consider it to be part of Anomalurus.
References
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- Dieterlen, F. 2005. Family Anomaluridae. Pp. 1532-1534 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
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Category:Taxa named by George Robert Waterhouse
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