Funisciurus pyrropus

(F. Cuvier in É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire & F. Cuvier, 1833)

Fire-footed Rope Squirrel

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Euarchontoglires
Order : Rodentia
Suborder : Sciuromorpha
Family : Sciuridae
Subfamily : Xerinae
Tribe : Protoxerini
Genus : Funisciurus

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, É. and Cuvier, F. 1833-02. Livraison 66. in Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, É. and Cuvier, F. 1818-1842. Histoire naturelle des mammifères, avec figures originales, coloriées, dessinées d'après des animaux vivants. Blaise, Paris.

Original name as described

Pyrropus

Other common names

Red-legged Rope Squirrel

Type material

MNHN 380

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

Gabon.

Biogeographic realm

Afrotropic

Country distribution

Senegal · Gambia · Guinea · Guinea-Bissau · Sierra Leone · Liberia · Cote d'Ivoire · Burkina Faso · Ghana · Nigeria · Cameroon · Central African Republic · Equatorial Guinea · Republic of the Congo · Angola · Democratic Republic of the Congo · Uganda · Rwanda · Burundi?

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

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