Pygmy Scaly-tailed Flying Squirrel

Pygmy Scaly-tailed Flying Squirrel

Taxobox
name = Pygmy Scaly-tailed Flying Squirrel


status = DD
status_system = iucn3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
familia = Anomaluridae
genus = "Idiurus"
species = "I. zenkeri"
binomial = "Idiurus zenkeri"
binomial_authority = Matschie, 1894
synonyms =
The Pygmy Scaly-tailed Flying Squirrel ("Idiurus zenkeri") is a species of rodent in the Anomaluridae family. It is found in Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, and Uganda. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.

References

*Dieterlen, F. 2005. Family Anomaluridae. Pp. 1532-1534 "in" Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
* Hutterer, R. & Decher, J. 2004. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/10796/all Idiurus zenkeri] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 29 July 2007.


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