African striped squirrel

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

African striped squirrels have been implicated in the spread of human monkeypox in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

There are 9 species in the genus:

• Funisciurus carruthersi
• Funisciurus isabella
• Funisciurus lemniscatus
• Funisciurus congicus
• Funisciurus bayonii
• Funisciurus substriatus
• Funisciurus leucogenys
• Funisciurus pyrrhopus
• Funisciurus anerythrus

References

• Nowak, Ronald M. (1999), Walker's Mammals of the World, 6th edition, Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp 1277-1279.
• http://www.squirrels.org/names.html

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