Paraxerus Forsyth Major, 1893 . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1893:189.

COMMENT: Includes Aethosciurus (with the exception of ruwenzorii, here included in Heliosciurus) and Tamiscus; see Moore, 1959, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 118:153-206.

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