Heliosciurus gambianus (Ogilby 1835)

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Sciuridae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 754-818 : 793

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).