Cooper's mountain squirrel | |
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Coopers Mountain Squirrel | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Sciuridae |
Genus: | Paraxerus |
Species: | P. cooperi |
Binomial name | |
Paraxerus cooperi (Hayman, 1950) | |
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