Heliosciurus gambianus
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Description
Heliosciurus gambianus (Ogilby 1835)
[Sciurus] gambianus Ogilby 1835, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1835: 103.
Type Locality: Gambia, possibly near Ft. St. Mary. "...brought from the Gambia ..." "Through... Mr. Rendall, who has lately arrived from the Gambia, where his brother is lieutenent-governor of Fort St. Mary and the other British possessions in that neighbourhood...".
Vernacular Names: Gambian Sun Squirrel.
Subspecies::
Subspecies Heliosciurus gambianus subsp. gambianus Ogilby 1835
Subspecies Heliosciurus gambianus subsp. abassensis Neumann 1902
Subspecies Heliosciurus gambianus subsp. bongensis Heuglin 1877
Subspecies Heliosciurus gambianus subsp. canaster Thomas and Hinton 1923
Subspecies Heliosciurus gambianus subsp. dysoni St. Leger 1937
Subspecies Heliosciurus gambianus subsp. elegans Thomas 1909
Subspecies Heliosciurus gambianus subsp. hoogstraali Setzer 1954
Subspecies Heliosciurus gambianus subsp. kaffensis Neumann 1902
Subspecies Heliosciurus gambianus subsp. lateris Thomas 1909
Subspecies Heliosciurus gambianus subsp. limbatus Schwarz 1915
Subspecies Heliosciurus gambianus subsp. loandicus Thomas 1923
Subspecies Heliosciurus gambianus subsp. madogae Heller 1911
Subspecies Heliosciurus gambianus subsp. multicolor Rüppell 1835
Subspecies Heliosciurus gambianus subsp. omensis Thomas 1904
Subspecies Heliosciurus gambianus subsp. rhodesiae Wroughton 1907
Subspecies Heliosciurus gambianus subsp. senescens Thomas 1909
Distribution: Senegal, Gambia, Guinea Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Côte d’Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Chad, Central African Republic, Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, Burundi, Tanzania, Dem. Rep. Congo, Angola, Zimbabwe, Zambia.
Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).
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Related works
- 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/0EFE6B668DC275581B9E63E821759614 (URL)
- https://www.gbif.org/species/231538130 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Ogilby
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Rodentia
- Family
- Sciuridae
- Genus
- Heliosciurus
- Species
- gambianus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Heliosciurus gambianus (Ogilby, 1835) sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005
References
- Ogilby, W. 1835. Descriptions of Mammalia and birds from the Gambia. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1835: 97 - 105.
- Hinton, M. A. C. 1923. On the voles collected by Mr. G. Forrest in Yunnan; with remarks upon the genera Eothenomys and Neodon and upon their allies. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 9, 11: 145 - 162.
- Heller, E. 1911. New species of rodents and carnivores from equatorial Africa. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 56: 1 - 16.