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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER SCIUROMORPHA
--> FAMILY Sciuridae
--> SUBFAMILY Xerinae
--> TRIBE Protoxerini
--> GENUS Heliosciurus
SPECIES Heliosciurus mutabilis
| Author: | Peters, 1852. | | Citation: | Bericht Verhandl. K. Preuss Akad. Wiss., Berlin, 17: 273. | | Common Name: | Mutable Sun Squirrel | | Type Locality: | Mozambique, Boror, 19 km NW of Quelimane, 17°S . "Africa orientalis, Boror, 17° Lat. Austr." | | Distribution: | Malawi; S and SW highlands, Tanzania; NW of the Zambezi River near Beira (Mozambique); Chirinda Forest, Melsetter Dist., Sabi/Lundi River confluence, Vumba, Umtali (SE Zimbabwe). | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | G. M. Allen (1939) considered mutabilis a distinct species. Ellerman (1940) treated it as a subspecies of H. gambianus following Ingoldby (1927). Rosevear (1963), followed by Amtmann (1975), treated it as a subspecies of H. rufobrachium. Grubb (1982b) again treated H. mutabilis as a distinct species and recognized the five subspecies above. |
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