African bush squirrel

African bush squirrel
Smith's bush squirrel (P. cepapi)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Sciuridae
Subfamily:	Xerinae
Tribe:	Protoxerini
Genus:	Paraxerus Forsyth Major, 1893
Type species
Sciurus cepapi A. Smith, 1834
Species
See text

The African bush squirrels are a genus of squirrels, Paraxerus, in the subfamily Xerinae.^[1] They are only found in Africa. The 11 species in this genus are:

• Alexander's bush squirrel (P. alexandri)
• Boehm's bush squirrel (P. boehmi)
• Smith's bush squirrel (P. cepapi)
• Cooper's mountain squirrel (P. cooperi)
• Striped bush squirrel (P. flavovittis)
• Black and red bush squirrel (P. lucifer)
• Ochre bush squirrel (P. ochraceus)
• Red bush squirrel (P. palliatus)
• Green bush squirrel (P. poensis)
• Swynnerton's bush squirrel (P. vexillarius)
• Vincent's bush squirrel (P. vincenti)

References

1. Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M., eds. (2005). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.

External links

• https://web.archive.org/web/20070329003419/http://www.squirrels.org/names.html