Idiurus zenkeri Matschie 1894

Idiurus zenkeri Matschie 1894, Sitzb. Ges. Naturf. Fr. Berlin: 197.

Type Locality: S Cameroon, Yaounde.

Vernacular Names: Pygmy Scaly-tailed Flying Squirrel.

Synonyms: Idiurus haymani Verheyen 1963; Idiurus kivuensis Lönnberg 1917 .

Distribution: Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, NE and E Dem. Rep. Congo, W Uganda. See Schunke and Hutterer (2000).

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (nt); "Insufficiently known" according to Schlitter (1989).

Discussion: Includes kivuensis, originally considered (by Lönnberg), as a subspecies of zenkeri, then considered a valid species by Hayman (1946:211); Verheyen (1963:183) regarded it as a synonym of I. z. zenkeri . Dieterlen (1993:758) included kivuensis erronously in I. macrotis, see comments therein.