Epixerus ebii
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Epixerus ebii (Temminck 1853)
[Sciurus] ebii Temminck 1853, Esquisses Zool. sur la Cote de Guine: 129.
Type Locality: Ghana. "...les grandes forêts de la Guiné, et se trouve dans les mêmes localités que l'espèce précédente, [...les confins du pays des Fantes...] mais parait être moins abondante dans les parties boisées de Dabocrom.".
Vernacular Names: Western Palm Squirrel.
Subspecies::
Subspecies Epixerus ebii subsp. ebii Temminck 1853
Subspecies Epixerus ebii subsp. jonesi Hayman 1954
Subspecies Epixerus ebii subsp. wilsoni Du Chaillu 1860
Distribution: Sierra Leone, Liberia, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana.
Conservation: CITES – Appendix III (Ghana); IUCN – Lower Risk (nt) as E. ebii and as E. wilsoni.
Discussion: E. ebii and E. wilsoni were formerly considered distinct species by Perret and Aellen (1956), Verheyen (1959), and Rosevear (1969), but Kuhn (1964) revised the genus and concluded that they are conspecific.
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- Is part of
- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7316535 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/91C4B717759630DB830679AF52629BE0 (URL)
- Is source of
- https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/5BE11AFC549FFE970602F5366B35B082 (URL)
- https://www.gbif.org/species/231538225 (URL)
Biodiversity
References
- Perret, J. - L., and V. Aellen. 1956. Mammiferes du Cameroun de la collection J. - L. Perret. Revue Suisse de Zoologie, 63 (26): 395 - 450.
- Verheyen, W. N. 1959. Un genre de Sciuride nouveau pour la Faune du Congo belge: Epixerus Thomas 1909. Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines, 40: 301 - 306.
- Rosevear, D. R. 1969. The rodents of West Africa. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 677: 1 - 604.
- Kuhn, H. - J. 1964. Epixerus ebii jonesi in Liberia. Bonner Zoologische Beitrage, 15: 149 - 158.