Cameroon scaly-tail

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Cameroon Scaly-tail
Temporal range: Early Miocene - Recent
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Zenkerella

Matschie, 1898
Species:
Z. insignis
Binomial name
Zenkerella insignis
Matschie, 1898

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The Cameroon Scaly-tail or Flightless Scaly-tailed Squirrel (Zenkerella insignis) is a species of rodent in the family Anomaluridae. It is the only species in the genus Zenkerella. It is found in Cameroon, Central African Republic, and Gabon. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.

References

  1. Hutterer, R. & Decher, J. (2008). Zenkerella insignis. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 6 January 2009.
  • 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.


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