Cameroon scaly-tail
| Cameroon scaly-tail Temporal range: Early Miocene to recent (genus)
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Zenkerellidae |
| Genus: | Zenkerella |
| Species: | Z. insignis
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| Binomial name | |
| Zenkerella insignis Matschie, 1898
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The Cameroon scaly-tail (Zenkerella insignis), also referred to as the Cameroon anomalure, flightless anomalure or flightless scaly-tail, is a rodent species endemic to West Central Africa. The first photograph of a live specimen was taken in 2016 by a trap camera in Cameroon, with the first high quality image being taken in May of 2019. The taxonomic classification of the species has been subject to recent revision.