Zenkerella Photographs
Zenkerella may refer to: * ''Zenkerella'', a monotypic genus of rodents in the family Anomaluridae with the only species ''Zenkerella insignis The Cameroon scaly-tail (''Zenkerella insignis''), also referred to as the Cameroon anomalure, flightless anomalure or flightless scaly-tail, is a rodent species endemic to West Central Africa. The scientific literature has never (or possibly onl ...'' * ''Zenkerella'' (plant), a legume genus {{Genus disambiguation ...
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Zenkerella Insignis
The Cameroon scaly-tail (''Zenkerella insignis''), also referred to as the Cameroon anomalure, flightless anomalure or flightless scaly-tail, is a rodent species endemic to West Central Africa. The scientific literature has never (or possibly only obscurely) reported observations of live individuals. The taxonomic classification of the species has been subject to recent revision. Phylogeny Previous common names for this species included ''flightless scaly-tail ‘squirrel’'', but this is a misnomer as anomalures are very distantly related to the true squirrels of the rodent family Sciuridae and only superficially resemble them. ''Z. insignis'' is the only extant species in the genus ''Zenkerella'' and family Zenkerellidae and is the only surviving species of a lineage that diverged from the other extant anomalures (genera '' Idiurus'' and ''Anomalurus'') ~49 million years ago (Ma). Among mammals, very few species are the sole survivors of such ancient lineages, some other examp ...
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