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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER SCIUROMORPHA
--> FAMILY Sciuridae
--> SUBFAMILY Xerinae
--> TRIBE Protoxerini
--> GENUS Heliosciurus
SPECIES Heliosciurus punctatus
| Author: | Temminck, 1853. | | Citation: | Esquisses Zool. sur la Côte de Guiné: 138. | | Common Name: | Small Sun Squirrel | | Type Locality: | Guinea coast, no exact locality given. "...dans toutes les forêts de la Guiné..." Given by Ingoldby (1927) as Ghana: "Secondi and Bibiani, Gold Coast." | | Distribution: | E Liberia, S Côte d’Ivoire, S Ghana (E to Lake Volta). | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | Treated as a subspecies of H. gambianus by Ingoldby (1927), Ellerman (1940), Rosevear (1969), and Amtmann (1975). Considered a distinct species by G. M. Allen (1939), and Roth and Thorington (1982). |
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