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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER SCIUROMORPHA
--> FAMILY Sciuridae
--> SUBFAMILY Xerinae
--> TRIBE Protoxerini
--> GENUS Heliosciurus
SPECIES Heliosciurus gambianus
| Author: | Ogilby, 1835. | | Citation: | Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1835: 103. | | Common Name: | Gambian Sun Squirrel | | 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..." | | 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. | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | |
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