Paraxerus cooperi

(Hayman, 1950)

Cooper's Mountain Squirrel

Taxonomy

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

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Hayman, R.W. 1950-03-01. Two new African squirrels. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (12)3(27):262-264.

Authority publication link

https://doi.org/10.1080/00222935008654713

Original name as described

Heliosciurus (Aethosciurus) cooperi

Other common names

Cooper's Bush Squirrel

Type material

BMNH:Mamm:1949.646

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/69622b2a-8378-4b0e-908d-d43e4fbcd752

Type locality

"Rumpi Hills, Kumba Division, Cameroon."

Biogeographic realm

Afrotropic

Country distribution

Nigeria · Cameroon

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

Species Permalink

https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1001823

Country distribution map

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Names and synonyms

Present and past (if available) associated names to the species. Click on a name to view its details. If the list is long, scroll down to see more.

Heliosciurus (Aethosciurus) cooperi

(Hayman, 1950)

Family

Sciuridae

Root name

cooperi

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

BMNH:Mamm:1949.646

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/69622b2a-8378-4b0e-908d-d43e4fbcd752

Authority page

262

Authority publication

Annals and Magazine of Natural History

Paraxerus cooperi

Corbet & J. Edwards Hill, 1980

Family

Sciuridae

Root name

cooperi

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

131

Authority publication

London

Name usages

  1. Corbet & Hill (1980:131) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63069)
  2. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl (1982:357) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63071)
  3. Thorington & Hoffmann (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8554)
  4. Happold (2013:79) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/27625)
  5. Wilson, Lacher & Mittermeier (2016:834) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59599)
  6. Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #16206) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
  7. Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #16206) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
  8. Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1001823) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)
  9. International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/16206/22243007) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

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