[1] It is a common species with a wide range, and the International Union for Conservation of Nature has rated it as being of "least concern".

Its common name and Latin binomial commemorate Lieutenant Boyd Alexander, a British Army officer, explorer and ornithologist.

The tail tapers towards the tip and is clad in moderate-length hairs and indistinctly barred in ochre and brown.

[4] Alexander's bush squirrel is endemic to tropical Central Africa, where its range includes the northeast part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the eastern part of Uganda, from the White Nile to the Lualaba River, and from the Mbomou River in the north of Uganda to the Lukuga River in the south, a total area of occupancy of about 387,450 km2 (150,000 sq mi).

No particular threats have been identified but it may suffer from some habitat loss as forest land is cleared for agriculture.