African striped squirrel

African striped squirrel
	Lady Burton's rope squirrel (Funisciurus isabella)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Sciuridae
Subfamily:	Xerinae
Tribe:	Protoxerini
Genus:	Funisciurus ; Trouessart, 1880
Type species
	Sciurus isabella ; J. E. Gray, 1862
Species
	Funisciurus anerythrus ; Funisciurus bayonii ; Funisciurus carruthersi ; Funisciurus congicus ; Funisciurus duchaillui ; Funisciurus isabella ; Funisciurus lemniscatus ; Funisciurus leucogenys ; Funisciurus pyrropus ; Funisciurus substriatus ;

Last updated August 08, 2025

African striped squirrels (genus Funisciurus), or rope squirrels, form a taxon of squirrels under the subfamily Xerinae and the tribe Protoxerini.^[1] They are only found in western and central Africa.

There are ten species in the genus:

Thomas's rope squirrel (Funisciurus anerythrus)
Lunda rope squirrel (Funisciurus bayonii)
Carruther's mountain squirrel (Funisciurus carruthersi)
Congo rope squirrel (Funisciurus congicus)
Du Chaillu's rope squirrel (Funisciurus duchaillui)
Lady Burton's rope squirrel (Funisciurus isabella)
Ribboned rope squirrel (Funisciurus lemniscatus)
Red-cheeked rope squirrel (Funisciurus leucogenys)
Fire-footed rope squirrel (Funisciurus pyrropus)
Kintampo rope squirrel (Funisciurus substriatus)

Zoonoses

African striped squirrels have been implicated in the spread of human monkeypox in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.^{[ citation needed ]} African striped squirrels were found to be a source of monkeypox in a 2003 Midwestern monkeypox outbreak.

References

↑ Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M., eds. (2005). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.

Nowak, Ronald M. (1999). Walker's Mammals of the World (6th ed.). Baltimore & London: The Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 1277–1279.
"Complete list of squirrels by common name and species name". squirrels.org. 1993. Archived from the original on 6 December 2013.

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[1] Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M., eds. (2005). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.

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