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Paraxerus cepapi (Tree squirrel)

Smith's bush squirrel, bush squirrel, yellow-footed squirrel, mopane squirrel [English]; boomeekhoring [Afrikaans]; Baumhornchen [German]; l' écureuils des bois [French]; ubusinti, ubuhlula, isikhale [isiNdebele]; intshidane yasezihlahleni, ingwejeje yasezihlahleni [isiZulu]; unomatse [isiXhosa]; sehlora [Sepedi]; setlhora, setlhorê, setlhorwê, sepêpê [Setswana]; tsindi [Shona]; ingwejeje [siSwati]; tshithura, tshisindi [Tshivenda]; unshindi [Yei]; xindzi, maxindlani, maxidyani, sindyane [Xitsonga]; kamale [Lozi]; haritatōb [Nama] [Damara]

Life > Eukaryotes > Opisthokonta > Metazoa (animals) > Bilateria > Deuterostomia > Chordata > Craniata > Vertebrata (vertebrates)  > Gnathostomata (jawed vertebrates) > Teleostomi (teleost fish) > Osteichthyes (bony fish) > Class: Sarcopterygii (lobe-finned fish) > Stegocephalia (terrestrial vertebrates) > Reptiliomorpha > Amniota > Synapsida (mammal-like reptiles) > Therapsida > Theriodontia >  Cynodontia > Mammalia (mammals) > Placentalia (placental mammals) > Euarchontaglires > Glires > Rodentia (rodents) > Sciurognathi > Family: Sciuridae (squirrels)

Paraxerus cepapi (Tree squirrel)
Paraxerus cepapi (Tree squirrel) Paraxerus cepapi (Tree squirrel)

Paraxerus cepapi (Tree squirrel), Kruger National Park, South Africa. [photos Arno Meintjes ©]