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Species of rodent

Green bush squirrel

Paraxerus poensis at Mount Cameroon
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Sciuridae
Genus:	Paraxerus
Species:	P. poensis
Binomial name
*Paraxerus poensis* (A. Smith, 1830)

The green bush squirrel (Paraxerus poensis) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is found in Benin, Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone.

Habitat

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and plantations.

References

Grubb, P. & Ekué, M. R. M. (2008). "Paraxerus poensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2008. Retrieved 6 January 2009.{{cite iucn}}: old-form url (help)

Taxon identifiers
Paraxerus poensis	Wikidata: Q1763005 Wikispecies: Paraxerus poensis CoL: 4DJ3R EoL: 321425 GBIF: 2437344 iNaturalist: 46112 IRMNG: 10459915 ITIS: 632401 IUCN: 16211 MDD: 1001828 MSW: 12400867 Observation.org: 86366 Open Tree of Life: 3609125

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