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Heliosciurus punctatus
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Heliosciurus punctatus (Temminck, 1853) Esquisses Zool. sur la Côte de Guiné, p. 138.
TYPE LOCALITY: Guinea coast, no exact locality given, "...dans toutes les forêts de la Guiné..." Given by Ingoldby (1927) as Ghana: "Secondi and Bibiani, Gold Coast."
DISTRIBUTION: E Liberia, S Ivory Coast, S Ghana (E to Lake Volta).
SYNONYMS: savannius Thomas, 1923.
COMMENTS: Treated as a subspecies of H. gambianus by Ingoldby (1927), Ellerman (1940), Rosevear (1969), and Amtmann (1975). Considered a distinct species by Allen (1939), and Roth and Thorington (1982).
Notes
Published as part of Robert S. Hoffmann & Charles G. Anderson, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Sciuridae, pp. 419-465 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 429, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353130
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- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7353130 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFD6F970FF94FFA5CB40AC773518FF86 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Family
- Sciuridae
- Genus
- Heliosciurus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Rodentia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Temminck
- Species
- punctatus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Heliosciurus punctatus (Temminck, 1853) sec. Hoffmann & Anderson, 1993
References
- Ingoldby, C. M. 1927. Some notes on the African squirrels of the genus Heliosciurus. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1927: 471 - 487.
- Ellerman, J. R. 1940. The families and genera of living rodents. Vol. 1. Rodents other than Muridae. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 689 pp.
- Rosevear, D. R. 1969. The rodents of West Africa. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 677: 1 - 604.
- Amtmann, E. 1975. Family Sciuridae. Part 6. 1. Pp. 1 - 12, in The mammals of Africa: An identification manual (J. Meester and H. W. Setzer, eds.) [issued 10 Dec 1975]. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C., not continuously paginated.
- Allen, G. M. 1939. A checklist of African mammals. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, 83: 1 - 763.
- Roth, V. L., and R. W. Thorington, Jr. 1982. Relative brain size among African squirrels. Journal of Mammalogy, 63 (1): 168 - 173.