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Bush Squirrel
The African bush squirrels are a genus of squirrels, ''Paraxerus'', in the subfamily Xerinae. 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 Vincent's bush squirrel (''Paraxerus vincenti'') is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae, named in honour of Jack Vincent. It is endemic to Mozambique. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, and it is threate ... (''P. vincenti'') References *https://web.archive.org/web/20070329003419/http://www.squirrels.org/names.html (Domain for sale) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smith's Bush Squirrel
Smith's bush squirrel (''Paraxerus cepapi''), also known as the yellow-footed squirrel or tree squirrel, is an African bush squirrel which is native to woodlands of the southern Afrotropics. Range It is found in Angola, Botswana, the DRCongo, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. It is a common rodent which is diurnal by nature. Appearance Its total length is 350 mm, half of which is tail. This species only weighs 200 g. The coat colour varies throughout the region. In the western and arid parts of its range, it is pale grey, and in the eastern localities, more brown. Its head and legs are a rusty colour. Colouration on the chest varies from yellowish to buff in the east, to white in the west. This squirrel's belly is white. These alert and ever busy creatures carry their long tails extended backwards. Diet Smith's bush squirrels are primarily vegetarian, but like most rodents, they take insect prey and use their front feet to man ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Striped Bush Squirrel
The striped bush squirrel (''Paraxerus flavovittis'') is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae found in Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, and Tanzania. Its natural habitats are moist savanna and plantation A plantation is an agricultural estate, generally centered on a plantation house, meant for farming that specializes in cash crops, usually mainly planted with a single crop, with perhaps ancillary areas for vegetables for eating and so on. The ...s. References Paraxerus Mammals described in 1852 Taxa named by Wilhelm Peters Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Squirrel-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vincent's Bush Squirrel
Vincent's bush squirrel (''Paraxerus vincenti'') is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae, named in honour of Jack Vincent. It is endemic to Mozambique. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, and it is threatened by habitat loss Habitat destruction (also termed habitat loss and habitat reduction) is the process by which a natural habitat becomes incapable of supporting its native species. The organisms that previously inhabited the site are displaced or dead, thereby .... References Further reading * * * Mammals of Mozambique Paraxerus Endemic fauna of Mozambique Mammals described in 1950 Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Squirrel-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swynnerton's Bush Squirrel
Swynnerton's bush squirrel (''Paraxerus vexillarius''), also known as Svynnerton's bush squirrel, is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae endemic to Tanzania. Its natural habitat In ecology, the term habitat summarises the array of resources, physical and biotic factors that are present in an area, such as to support the survival and reproduction of a particular species. A species habitat can be seen as the physical ... is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. References Mammals of Tanzania Endemic fauna of Tanzania Paraxerus Mammals described in 1923 Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Squirrel-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Green Bush Squirrel
The green bush squirrel (''Paraxerus poensis'') is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is found in Benin, Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone. Habitat Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and plantation A plantation is an agricultural estate, generally centered on a plantation house, meant for farming that specializes in cash crops, usually mainly planted with a single crop, with perhaps ancillary areas for vegetables for eating and so on. The ...s. References Paraxerus Mammals described in 1830 Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Squirrel-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Bush Squirrel
The red bush squirrel or red-bellied coast squirrel (''Paraxerus palliatus'') is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae, which is found in bush and forest along the eastern seaboard of Africa. It is closely related to '' P. lucifer'', '' P. vexillarius'' and '' P. (p.) vincenti''. Range and habitat It is native to Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and South Africa. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forest, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, and subtropical or tropical dry shrubland. Races left, Subspecies ''P. p. ornatus'' of oNgoye forest, South Africa The southernmost subspecies, ''P. p. ornatus'', is endemic to oNgoye Forest in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. ''P. p. swynnertoni'' is endemic to Chirinda Forest in eastern Zimbabwe, and '' P. (p.) vincenti'' at Mount Namuli Mount Namuli is the second highest mountain in Mozambique and the highest in the Province of Zambezia. It is high and was measured, surveyed and d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ochre Bush Squirrel
The ochre bush squirrel (''Paraxerus ochraceus'') is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae found in Kenya, Somalia, and Tanzania. Its natural habitat is dry savanna A savanna or savannah is a mixed woodland- grassland (i.e. grassy woodland) ecosystem characterised by the trees being sufficiently widely spaced so that the canopy does not close. The open canopy allows sufficient light to reach the ground to .... References Paraxerus Mammals described in 1880 Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Squirrel-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black And Red Bush Squirrel
The black and red bush squirrel (''Paraxerus lucifer'') is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae occurring in Malawi, Tanzania, and Zambia. In Malawi, it is found in Misuku Hills and Nyika Plateau and in Tanzania Poroto Mountains and Mount Rungwe; it has not been found in Zambia where it was expected to occur in Mafinga Hills and Makutu Mountains. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forest, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, and subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland. It may be threatened by habitat loss Habitat destruction (also termed habitat loss and habitat reduction) is the process by which a natural habitat becomes incapable of supporting its native species. The organisms that previously inhabited the site are displaced or dead, thereby .... References Paraxerus Mammals described in 1897 Taxa named by Oldfield Thomas Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Squirrel-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cooper's Mountain Squirrel
Cooper's mountain squirrel (''Paraxerus cooperi'') is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae found in Cameroon and Nigeria. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. References Paraxerus Mammals described in 1950 Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Squirrel-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Immanuel Forsyth Major
Charles Immanuel Forsyth Major (15 August 1843, Glasgow – 25 March 1923, Munich) was a Scottish-born, Swiss physician, zoologist and vertebrate palaeontologist. Major was born in Glasgow and studied at Basel and Zurich Universities in Switzerland and later Göttingen in Germany. He graduated in medicine at Basel in 1868 and became a physician in Florence, Italy. Like many early naturalists he spent his free time studying fossil mammals. His first publication was on fossil primates in 1872. The Italian government supported him in 1877 and he collected fossils from Calabria, Corsica, Sardinia, and Sicily. In 1886, he stopped practising as a physician and began to study fossils in the Greek Archipelago with his collections going to the College Galliard at Lausanne and to the British Museum (Natural History). In the British Museum collections he took a keen interest in material from Madagascar. He studied the lemur fauna, both extant and extinct, discovered the new family Megaladap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boehm's Bush Squirrel
Boehm's bush squirrel (''Paraxerus boehmi'') is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae found in Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, subtropical or tropical moist montane forest, and moist savanna A savanna or savannah is a mixed woodland- grassland (i.e. grassy woodland) ecosystem characterised by the trees being sufficiently widely spaced so that the canopy does not close. The open canopy allows sufficient light to reach the ground to .... References External links Photographs of Boehm's bush squirrel in Uganda. Paraxerus Mammals described in 1886 Taxa named by Anton Reichenow Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Mammals of Central Africa {{Squirrel-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander's Bush Squirrel
Alexander's bush squirrel (''Paraxerus alexandri'') is a species of squirrel native to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda. It is arboreal and lives in tropical moist forests, especially undisturbed mature forests. It is a common species with a wide range, and the International Union for Conservation of Nature has rated it as being of "least concern". Its common name and Latin binomial commemorate Lieutenant Boyd Alexander, a British Army officer, explorer and ornithologist. Description This is a very small squirrel with a head-and-body length of about and a tail about in length, with a weight of . The fur is a grizzled mixture of yellow, grey and black, with a few black guard hairs, giving an overall impression of a greenish-brown colour. There is a broad band of tawny orange running from the head to the rump, bordered on either side by a thin black band and a narrow creamy-white band. The underparts are a paler greenish-brown colour, sometimes with yellowish blot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
