Thomas's Rope Squirrel is an African squirrel with a grizzled brown back and a pale stripe along the flank. The account lists riverside and seasonally flooded forests among its habitats.
The back is grizzled brown, with a pale flank stripe. The underside is reported as gray-white to orange, and the tail tip is white.
The Nigeria account describes it as active by day and moving both in trees and on the ground. Its listed foods there include fruit, seeds, and arthropods.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.