Taxa

Sciurocheirus

Genus

Citation Formats

General Reference

Nature Atlas. "Sciurocheirus." Accessed September 8, 2026. https://nature.interactiveatlas.org/taxa/genus-sciurocheirus.

APA Style

Nature Atlas. (n.d.). Sciurocheirus. Retrieved September 8, 2026, from https://nature.interactiveatlas.org/taxa/genus-sciurocheirus

BibTeX

@misc{natureatlas-sciurocheirus,
  author = {Nature Atlas},
  title = {Sciurocheirus},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://nature.interactiveatlas.org/taxa/genus-sciurocheirus},
  note = {Accessed September 8, 2026}
}

Sciurocheirus is a genus of nocturnal primates in the family Galagidae, known as the squirrel galagos, native to western equatorial Africa on Bioko Island, Cameroon and Gabon. Originally described as a single species by Waterhouse in 1838, the genus was formally established by Gray in 1863 and now comprises four recognized species following the 2013 description of Sciurocheirus makandensis, alongside S. alleni, S. gabonensis and S. cameronensis.

Sources

Squirrel galago (Wikipedia)

Introduction

Quote, Introduction

The squirrel galagos are a group of four species of strepsirrhine primates.

View the Source

Comments (0)

No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.

Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)

No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.

View At A Past Year

The atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.

Switch Atlas

The Inner World

The Civil World

The Natural World