Paraxerus Forsyth Major, 1893

Denys, Christiane, Missoup, Alain Didier, Nicolas, Violaine, Fülling, Olaf, Delapré, Arnaud, Bilong, Charles Felix Bilong, Taylor, Peter John J. & Hutterer, Rainer, 2014, African highlands as mammal diversity hotspots: new records of Lamottemys okuensis Petter, 1986 (Rodentia: Muridae) and other endemic rodents from Mt Oku, Cameroon, Zoosystema 36 (3), pp. 647-690 : 677

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https://doi.org/ 10.5252/z2014n3a6

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scientific name

Paraxerus Forsyth Major, 1893
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Genus Paraxerus Forsyth Major, 1893 View in CoL

Two species of green squirrels are already recorded in Cameroon. Paraxerus poensis (A. Smith, 1830) is the smallest, the holotype comes from Bioko ( Equatorial Guinea) and it is widely distributed in West Central Africa. The largest species, P. cooperi Hayman, 1950 , was described from the Rumpi Hills and Banso mountains of Bamenda region, it is considered as Vulnerable by IUCN (2012).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Sciuridae

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