Otolemur garnettii (Ogilby 1838)

[Otolienus] garnettii Ogilby 1838, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1838: 6.

Type Locality: Zanzibar (designated by Thomas, 1917 b:48) .

Vernacular Names: Northern Greater Galago.

Subspecies::

Subspecies Otolemur garnettii subsp. garnettii Ogilby 1838

Subspecies Otolemur garnettii subsp. lasiotis Peters 1876

Subspecies Otolemur garnettii subsp. kikuyuensis Lönnberg 1912

Subspecies Otolemur garnettii subsp. panganiensis Matschie 1905

Distribution: S Somalia to SE Tanzania (including Zanzibar, Pemba and Mafia Isls) and perhaps N Mozambique.

Conservation: CITES – Appendix II; IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Olson (1979, in litt.[Unpubl. Ph.D. Dissertation, Univ. London]) was the first to treat garnettii as a distinct species. It is partly sympatric with both O. crassicaudatus and O. monteiri .