Red Bush Squirrel
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| Red Bush Squirrel | |
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| P. p. ornatus | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | squirrels |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Sciuridae |
| Genus: | Paraxerus |
| Species: | P. palliatus |
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| Paraxerus palliatus (Peters, 1852) |
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The Red Bush Squirrel (Paraxerus palliatus) is a species of rodent in the Sciuridae family. It is found in Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, and subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.
The southern-most subspecies Paraxerus palliatus ornatus is endemic to Ongoye Forest, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
[edit] References
- ^ Grubb, P. (2008). Paraxerus palliatus. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 6 January 2009.
- ^ Thorington, R.W., Jr.; Hoffmann, R.S. (2005). "Family Sciuridae". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. Mammal Species of the World: a taxonomic and geographic reference (3rd ed.). The Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 754–818. ISBN 0-8018-8221-4. OCLC 26158608. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?s=y&id=12400001.
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