“Sun squirrel”的意思、由来-开放百科全书

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Sun squirrel

释义

References

{{Automatic_taxobox
| name = Sun squirrels
| fossil_range = Late Pleistocene to Recent
| image = Red-legged sun squirrel (Heliosciurus rufobrachium).jpg
| image_caption = H. rufobrachium, Uganda
| taxon = Heliosciurus
| authority = Trouessart, 1880
| subdivision_ranks = Species^[1]
| subdivision =

Heliosciurus gambianus
Heliosciurus mutabilis
Heliosciurus punctatus
Heliosciurus rufobrachium
Heliosciurus ruwenzorii
Heliosciurus undulatus

}}

Sun squirrels (genus Heliosciurus), form a taxon of squirrels under the subfamily Xerinae and the tribe Protoxerini. They are only found in sub-Saharan Africa.

The habit of basking in the sun on tree branches probably gave this group its common name.

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

There are 6 species in the genus:

Gambian sun squirrel Heliosciurus gambianus
Mutable sun squirrel Heliosciurus mutabilis
Small sun squirrel Heliosciurus punctatus
Red-legged sun squirrel Heliosciurus rufobrachium
Ruwenzori sun squirrel Heliosciurus ruwenzorii
Zanj sun squirrel Heliosciurus undulatus

References

1. ^{{cite book|last1=Thorington|first1=R.W., Jr.|last2=Hoffmann|first2=R.S.|year=2005|pages=754–818|editor1-last=Wilson|editor1-first=D.E.|editor2-last=Reeder|editor2-first=D.M|url=http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3|chapter=Family Sciuridae|chapterurl=http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?s=y&id=12400001|title=Mammal Species of the World: a taxonomic and geographic reference|edition=3rd|publisher=The Johns Hopkins University Press|isbn=0-8018-8221-4|oclc=26158608}}

Nowak, Ronald M. (1999), Walker's Mammals of the World, 6th edition, Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp 1281–1282.
https://web.archive.org/web/20070329003419/http://www.squirrels.org/names.html

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