Anomalurus beecrofti Fraser 1852

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Anomaluridae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 1532-1533 : 1532

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Anomalurus beecrofti Fraser 1852
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Anomalurus beecrofti Fraser 1852 View in CoL

Anomalurus beecrofti Fraser 1852 View in CoL , Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1852: 17.

Type Locality: Equatorial Guinea, " Fernando Po " (= Bioko).

Vernacular Names: Beecroft's Scaly-tailed Squirrel.

Synonyms: Anomalurus argenteus Schwann 1904 ; Anomalurus chapini (J. A. Allen 1922) ; Anomalurus citrinus Thomas 1916 ; Anomalurus fulgens Gray 1869 ; Anomalurus hervoi Dekeyser and Villiers 1951 ; Anomalurus laniger Temminck 1853 ; Anomalurus schoutedeni Verheyen 1968 .

Distribution: Guinea-Bissau, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, N Angola, Dem. Rep. Congo, W Uganda, NW Zambia.

Conservation: CITES – Appendix III ( Ghana); IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). Not mentioned in Schlitter (1989).

Discussion: Belongs to the distinct genus Anomalurops according to Ansell (1978:73), Grubb et al. (1998:185), Rosevear (1969:159), and Verheyen (1968:404). Taxa argenteus and hervoi were considered "valid as a race" by Rosevear (1969); chapini and citrinus were considered "well defined subspecies" by Verheyen (1968); schoutedeni was considered a distinct species by Verheyen (1968) and by Cabral (1971). There is no proof of the validity of subspecies (A. C. Schunke, in litt.).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Anomaluridae

Genus

Anomalurus

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Anomalurus beecrofti Fraser 1852

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn 2005
2005
Loc

Anomalurus beecrofti

Fraser 1852: 17
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