Boehm's bush squirrel

Boehm's bush squirrel
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Sciuridae
Genus:	Paraxerus
Species:	P. boehmi
Binomial name
Paraxerus boehmi (Reichenow, 1886)
Subspecies[2]
P. b. boehmi P. b. antoniae P. b. emini P. b. gazellae

Boehm's bush squirrel (Paraxerus boehmi) is a species of rodents in the family Sciuridae found in Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, and moist savanna.

References

1. Grubb, P. (2008). Paraxerus boehmi. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 6 January 2009.
2. 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.

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