Heliosciurus rufobrachium (Waterhouse 1842)

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 : 794

Heliosciurus rufobrachium (Waterhouse 1842)

[Heliosciurus] rufobrachium ( Waterhouse 1842) , Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 1, 10: 202.

Type Locality: Equatorial Guinea, Bioko "...brought from Fernando Po...".

Vernacular Names: Red-legged Sun Squirrel.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Heliosciurus rufobrachium subsp. rufobrachium Waterhouse 1842

Subspecies Heliosciurus rufobrachium subsp. arrhenii Lönnberg 1917

Subspecies Heliosciurus rufobrachium subsp. aubryi Milne-Edwards 1867

Subspecies Heliosciurus rufobrachium subsp. benga Cabrera 1917

Subspecies Heliosciurus rufobrachium subsp. brauni St. Leger 1935

Subspecies Heliosciurus rufobrachium subsp. caurinus Thomas 1923

Subspecies Heliosciurus rufobrachium subsp. coenosus Thomas 1909

Subspecies Heliosciurus rufobrachium subsp. emissus Thomas 1923

Subspecies Heliosciurus rufobrachium subsp. hardyi Thomas 1923

Subspecies Heliosciurus rufobrachium subsp. isabellinus Gray 1867

Subspecies Heliosciurus rufobrachium subsp. keniae Neumann 1902

Subspecies Heliosciurus rufobrachium subsp. leakyi Toschi 1946

Subspecies Heliosciurus rufobrachium subsp. leonensis Thomas 1923

Subspecies Heliosciurus rufobrachium subsp. lualabae Thomas 1923

Subspecies Heliosciurus rufobrachium subsp. maculatus Temminck 1853

Subspecies Heliosciurus rufobrachium subsp. medjianus J. A. Allen 1922

Subspecies Heliosciurus rufobrachium subsp. nyansae Neumann 1902

Subspecies Heliosciurus rufobrachium subsp. obfuscatus Thomas 1923

Subspecies Heliosciurus rufobrachium subsp. occidentalis Monard 1941

Subspecies Heliosciurus rufobrachium subsp. pasha Schwann 1904

Subspecies Heliosciurus rufobrachium subsp. rubricatus J. A. Allen 1922

Subspecies Heliosciurus rufobrachium subsp. semlikii Thomas 1907

Distribution: Senegal, W Gambia, W Guinea Bissau, W Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, S Côte d’Ivoire, S Ghana, S Togo, Benin, S Nigeria, Cameroon, Bioko and Rio Muni ( Equatorial Guinea), SW Central African Republic, SE Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, SW and SE Kenya, E and NW Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, E Zimbabwe, Dem. Rep. Congo.

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Inclusion of aubryi and emissus questioned ( Amtmann, 1975; Grubb, 1978:158).