Otolemur garnettii (Ogilby 1838)

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Primates, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 111-184 : 126

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scientific name	Otolemur garnettii (Ogilby 1838)
status

Treatment

[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 .