African striped squirrels Temporal range:
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Lady Burton's rope squirrel (Funisciurus isabella) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Sciuridae |
Tribe: | Protoxerini |
Genus: |
Funisciurus Trouessart, 1880 |
Type species | |
Sciurus isabella | |
Species | |
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:
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.
African striped squirrels Temporal range:
| |
---|---|
Lady Burton's rope squirrel (Funisciurus isabella) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Sciuridae |
Tribe: | Protoxerini |
Genus: |
Funisciurus Trouessart, 1880 |
Type species | |
Sciurus isabella | |
Species | |
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:
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.