Fire-footed Rope Squirrel

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Fire-footed Rope Squirrel
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Sciuridae
Genus: Funisciurus
Species: F. pyrropus
Binomial name
Funisciurus pyrropus
(F. Cuvier, 1833)

The Fire-footed Rope Squirrel (Funisciurus pyrropus) is a species of rodent in the Sciuridae family. It is found in Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Uganda. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, moist savanna, and plantations .

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