Anomalurus beecrofti Fraser 1853
Creators
- 1. Mammal Section, Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig, Adenauerallee 160, 53113 Bonn (Germany) and Department of Biology, University of Vermont. Burlington, Vermont 05405 (USA) j. decher @ leibniz-zfmk. de
- 2. Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, The Ohio State University at Lima, Lima, OH 45804 (USA) ryanwnorris @ gmail. com
- 3. Golden Veroleum (Liberia) Inc., Monrovia Office: Unit 102, Wazni Building, 13 th Street and Tubman Boulevard, Sinkor, Monrovia (Liberia)
- 4. Wildlife Division, Forestry Commission, P. O. Box M 239, Accra (Ghana)
- 5. Mammal Section, Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig, Adenauerallee 160, 53113 Bonn (Germany)
- 6. Philosophenweg 12, 77654 Offenburg (Germany)
- 7. Department of Biogeography, University of Trier, Universitätsring 15, D- 54296 Trier (Germany)
- 8. Department of Biology, University of Vermont. Burlington, Vermont 05405 (USA) wkilpatr @ uvm. edu
Description
Anomalurus beecrofti Fraser, 1852
Anomalurus beecrofti Fraser, 1852: 17.
COMMON NAME. — Beecroft’s Anomalure; EWE: Kasanui, Vava.
MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Agumatsa Wildlife Sanctuary • 1 ♀; ZTNHC 950.
REMARK
This specimen was brought to us by a local hunter, on 19 November 1999. In the Volta Region a previous record is from the vicinity of Jasikan (Grubb et al. 1998) and it was observed at Kyabobo National Park by Hurst et al. (1995). In the Togo Highlands A. beecrofti was previously recorded from Apéyémé, Edifou, Ezimé and Misahohé (Robbins & Van der Straeten 1996; USNM). Grubb et al. (1998) followed Rosevear (1969) in using the generic name Anomalurops Matschie, 1914 for this species; we follow Dieterlen (2005) and Kingdon (2013) in the use of Anomalurus Waterhouse, 1843.
CONSERVATION STATUS. — Anomalurus beecrofti is listed as “Least Concern” on the IUCN Red List, however, progressive forest fragmentation with the loss of mature trees, specifically oil palms (Elaeis guineensis), will greatly compromise the habitat of this treedependent glider.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- ZTNHC
- Material sample ID
- ZTNHC 950
- Scientific name authorship
- Fraser
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Rodentia
- Family
- Anomaluridae
- Genus
- Anomalurus
- Species
- beecrofti
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Anomalurus beecrofti Fraser, 1853 sec. Decher, Norris, Abedi-Lartey, Oppong, Hutterer, Weinbrenner, Koch, Podsiadlowski & Kilpatrick, 2021
References
- FRASER L. 1852. - Description of a new species on Anomalurus from Fernando Po. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 20: 16 - 17. https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 30680608
- GRUBB P., JONES T. S., DAVIES A. G., EDBERG E., STARIN E. D. & HILL J. E. 1998. - Mammals of Ghana, Sierra Leone and the Gambia. The Trendrine Press, Zennor, St. Ives, Cornwall, vi + 265 p.
- HURST J., BOWES LYON D. & KEEFE E. O' 1995. - Kyabobo' 94: a joint Ghanaian and Oxford University Expedition. Final Report. KCP Publications, Ghana Wildlife Department, Institute for Renewable Natural Resources, 69 p.
- ROBBINS C. B. & VAN DER STRAETEN E. 1996. - Small mammals of Togo and Benin. II. Rodentia. Mammalia 60: 231 - 242.
- ROSEVEAR D. R. 1969. - The rodents of West Africa. Trustees of the British Museum of Natural History, London, xii + 604 p.
- DIETERLEN F. 2005. - Family Anomaluridae in WILSON D. E. & REEDEr D. M. (eds) Mammal species of the world. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore: 1532 - 1534.