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--> FAMILY Anomaluridae
--> SUBFAMILY Anomalurinae
--> GENUS Anomalurus
SPECIES Anomalurus beecrofti
| Author: | Fraser, 1852. | | Actual Date: | 1853 | | Citation: | Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1852: 17. | | Common Name: | Beecroft’s Scaly-tailed Squirrel. | | Type Locality: | Equatorial Guinea, "Fernando Po" (= Bioko). | | Distribution: | Guinea-Bissau, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, N Angola, Dem. Rep. Congo, W Uganda, NW Zambia. | | Status: | CITES – Appendix III (Ghana); IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). Not mentioned in Schlitter (1989). | | Comments: | Belongs to the distinct genus Anomalurops according to Ansell (1978:73), Grubb et al. (1998:185), Rosevear (1969:159), and Verheyen (1968:404). Taxa argenteus and hervoi were considered "valid as a race" by Rosevear (1969); chapini and citrinus were considered "well defined subspecies" by Verheyen (1968); schoutedeni was considered a distinct species by Verheyen (1968) and by Cabral (1971). There is no proof of the validity of subspecies (A. C. Schunke, in litt.). |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
argenteus Schwann, 1904
chapini (J. A. Allen, 1922)
citrinus Thomas, 1916
fulgens Gray, 1869
hervoi Dekeyser and Villiers, 1951
laniger Temminck, 1853
schoutedeni Verheyen, 1968
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