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Southern African Tree Squirrel (Paraxerus cepapi)

About Southern African Tree Squirrel (Paraxerus cepapi)

  • Kingdom: Animals
  • Phylum: Chordates
  • Class: Mammals
  • Order: Rodents
  • Family: Squirrels


Red List Category
LC
Least Concern

Red List Criteria

Version
3.1

Year Assessed
2008

Assessor/s
Grubb, P.

Reviewer/s
Amori, G. (Small Nonvolant Mammal Red List Authority) & Cox, N. (Global Mammal Assessment Team)

Contributor/s

Justification
Listed as Least Concern in view of its wide distribution, presumed large population, it occurs in a number of protected areas, and because it is unlikely to be declining fast enough to qualify for listing in a more threatened category.

History
  • 2004
    Least Concern
  • 1996
    Lower Risk/least concern
    (Baillie and Groombridge 1996)

International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources

Lifelists

Trips

No trip reports available.

Visits

  • 2001-06-03
    Victoria Falls, Zambia
    not 100% certain of ID.