The African bush squirrels are a
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...
of
squirrels, ''Paraxerus'', in the
subfamily Xerinae
The Xerinae comprise a subfamily of squirrels, many of which are highly terrestrial. It includes the tribes Marmotini (marmots, chipmunks, prairie dogs, and other Holarctic ground squirrels), Xerini (African and some Eurasian ground squirrels), ...
.
They are only found in Africa. The 11 species in this genus are:
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Alexander's bush squirrel (''P. alexandri'')
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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 ...
(''P. boehmi'')
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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, ...
(''P. cepapi'')
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Cooper's mountain squirrel (''P. cooperi'')
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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 estat ...
(''P. flavovittis'')
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Black and red bush squirrel (''P. lucifer'')
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Ochre bush squirrel (''P. ochraceus'')
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Red bush squirrel (''P. palliatus'')
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Green bush squirrel (''P. poensis'')
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Swynnerton's bush squirrel (''P. vexillarius'')
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Vincent's bush squirrel (''P. vincenti'')
References
*https://web.archive.org/web/20070329003419/http://www.squirrels.org/names.html (Domain for sale)
Taxa named by Charles Immanuel Forsyth Major
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