African bush squirrel

African bush squirrel
	Smith's bush squirrel (P. cepapi)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Infraclass:	Placentalia
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

Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M., eds. (2005). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: 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

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

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