The pygmy scaly-tailed flying squirrel (Idiurus zenkeri) is a species of rodent in the family Anomaluridae. It is found in Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, and Uganda. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Anomaluridae |
| Genus: | Idiurus |
| Species: | I. zenkeri
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| Idiurus zenkeri Matschie, 1894
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Diseases
editThe metanalysis of Peterson et al., 2004 shows Idiurus zenkeri is a probable source of some zoonotic outbreaks.[2]
References
edit- ^ Hutterer, R. (2016). "Idiurus zenkeri". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T10796A22183649. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T10796A22183649.en. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
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- Peterson, A. Townsend; Carroll, Darin S.; Mills, James N.; Johnson, Karl M. (2004). "Potential Mammalian Filovirus Reservoirs". Emerging Infectious Diseases. 10 (12): 2073–2081. doi:10.3201/eid1012.040346. PMC 3323391. PMID 15663841. S2CID 6269915.
- Cited by Baseler et al., 2017, Olival & Hayman 2011, Anderson et al., 2011 and others.
- Dieterlen, F. 2005. Family Anomaluridae. Pp. 1532-1534 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
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