The squirrel galagos are a group of four species of

strepsirrhine Strepsirrhini or Strepsirhini (; ) is a suborder of primates that includes the lemuriform primates, which consist of the lemurs of Madagascar, galagos ("bushbabies") and pottos from Africa, and the lorises from India and Southeast Asia. Colle ...

primate Primates is an order (biology), order of mammals, which is further divided into the Strepsirrhini, strepsirrhines, which include lemurs, galagos, and Lorisidae, lorisids; and the Haplorhini, haplorhines, which include Tarsiiformes, tarsiers a ...

s. They are classified in the genus ''Sciurocheirus'' of the family

Galagidae Galagos , also known as bush babies or ''nagapies'' (meaning "night monkeys" in Afrikaans), are small nocturnal primates native to continental, sub-Sahara Africa, and make up the family Galagidae (also sometimes called Galagonidae). They ar ...

. Originally a single species was described, ''Galago alleni'', by Waterhouse (1838), and the species was placed in a separate genus, ''

Sciurocheirus The squirrel galagos are a group of four species of strepsirrhine primates. They are classified in the genus ''Sciurocheirus'' of the family Galagidae. Originally a single species was described, ''Galago alleni'', by Waterhouse (1838), and the ...

'' by

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in 1863. While some listings still included them in ''Galago'', the species was split into three taxa, ''alleni'', ''cameronensis'', and ''gabonensis'' by Eisentraut (1973) and Groves (1989) which were then later elevated to species status by Groves (2001) as ''S. alleni'', '' S. cameronensis'', and '' S. gabonensis'' and followed by Groves (2005) and Nekaris (2013). The IUCN and

American Society of Mammalogists The American Society of Mammalogists (ASM) was founded in 1919. Its primary purpose is to encourage the study of mammal A mammal () is a vertebrate animal of the Class (biology), class Mammalia (). Mammals are characterised by the presence ...

both list ''S. cameronensis'' as a subspecies of ''S. alleni'' (as listed below). In 2013, another species, ''S. makandensis'' was described.

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* * * Galagos Taxa named by John Edward Gray {{primate-stub