Biology:African striped squirrel

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Short description: Genus of rodents

African striped squirrels
Temporal range: Recent
SciurusIsabellaWolf.jpg
Lady Burton's rope squirrel (Funisciurus isabella)
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Sciuridae
Tribe: Protoxerini
Genus: Funisciurus
Trouessart, 1880
Type species
Sciurus isabella
Species
  • Funisciurus anerythrus
  • Funisciurus bayonii
  • Funisciurus carruthersi
  • Funisciurus congicus
  • Funisciurus duchaillui
  • Funisciurus isabella
  • Funisciurus lemniscatus
  • Funisciurus leucogenys
  • Funisciurus pyrropus
  • Funisciurus substriatus

African striped squirrels (genus Funisciurus), or rope squirrels, form a taxon of squirrels under the subfamily Xerinae and the tribe Protoxerini.[1] They are only found in western and central Africa.

There are ten species in the genus:

Zoonoses

African striped squirrels have been implicated in the spread of human monkeypox in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.[citation needed] African striped squirrels were found to be a source of monkeypox in a 2003 Midwestern monkeypox outbreak. thumb|left|Congo rope squirrel photographed in Damaraland, Namibia.

References

Wikidata ☰ Q278459 entry