African striped squirrel

Taxobox
name = African striped squirrels
fossil_range = Recent
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
familia = Sciuridae
subfamilia = Xerinae
tribus = Protoxerini
genus = "Funisciurus"
genus_authority = Trouessart, 1880
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision =
* "Funisciurus carruthersi"
* "Funisciurus isabella"
* "Funisciurus lemniscatus"
* "Funisciurus congricus"
* "Funisciurus bayonii"
* "Funisciurus substriatus"
* "Funisciurus leucogenys"
* "Funisciurus pyrrhopus"
* "Funisciurus anerythrus"

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

African striped squirrels have been implicated in the spread of human monkeypox in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

There are 9 species in the genus:
* "Funisciurus carruthersi"
* "Funisciurus isabella"
* "Funisciurus lemniscatus"
* "Funisciurus congricus"
* "Funisciurus bayonii"
* "Funisciurus substriatus"
* "Funisciurus leucogenys"
* "Funisciurus pyrrhopus"
* "Funisciurus anerythrus"

References

*Nowak, Ronald M. (1999), "Walker's Mammals of the World", 6th edition, Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp 1277-1279.
*http://www.squirrels.org/names.html