Allosciurus aubinii ( Gray, 1873 )

Denys, Christiane, Missoup, Alain Didier, Nicolas, Violaine, Sylla, Morlaye, Douno, Mory, Kadjo, Blaise, Lalis, Aude & Monadjem, Ara, 2025, Annotated checklist of rodents from a biodiversity hotspot, Mount Nimba (West Africa), Zoosystema 47 (27), pp. 617-689 : 655

Allosciurus aubinii ( Gray, 1873)

Sciurus aubinii Gray, 1873: 65 .

REMARKS

This endemic species is known only from the Upper Guinea forests of West Africa occurring in Guinea, Côte d’Ivoire, Liberia and Ghana ( Monadjem et al. 2015). It was recorded only by Coe (1975) from the Liberian side of Nimba (NHM 46.415) and further three specimens are recorded in NMK (NMK 306, 385, and 437).

The pelage was described by Rosevear (1969) as dense, silky fine and uniform dark brown finely ticked with grey or yellow hairs. The underside is paler and greener. The tail is black above and paler at the tip and it is longer than HB. The weight is between 429 and 498 g (average: 470.7 g) ( Table 11 ). The skull is large and heavily domed in the rostrum and parieto-occipital region. The incisors are orange and the postorbital process forms a deep notch at the back of the interorbital constriction region. The molar rows are small and there is a P3/. The tympanic bullae are round and marks of transbullar septae are not visible. There is no masseteric tubercle visible The skull measurements are provided in Table 12 .