Cooper's mountain squirrel

Cooper's mountain squirrel
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Sciuridae
Genus: Paraxerus
Species: P. cooperi
Binomial name
Paraxerus cooperi
Hayman, 1950

Cooper's mountain squirrel (Paraxerus cooperi) is a species of rodents in the family Sciuridae found in Cameroon and Nigeria. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

References

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


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