Mammal Species of the World - Browse: rufobrachium

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SPECIES Heliosciurus rufobrachium

Author:

Waterhouse, 1842.

Citation:

Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., [ser. 1], 10: 202.

Common Name:

Red-legged Sun Squirrel

Type Locality:

Equatorial Guinea, Bioko "...brought from Fernando Po...".

Distribution:

Senegal, W Gambia, W Guinea Bissau, W Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, S Côte d’Ivoire, S Ghana, S Togo, Benin, S Nigeria, Cameroon, Bioko and Rio Muni (Equatorial Guinea), SW Central African Republic, SE Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, SW and SE Kenya, E and NW Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, E Zimbabwe, Dem. Rep. Congo.

Status:

IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Comments:

Inclusion of aubryi and emissus questioned (Amtmann, 1975; Grubb, 1978:158).

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SUBSPECIES rufobrachium

SUBSPECIES arrhenii

SUBSPECIES aubryi

SUBSPECIES benga

SUBSPECIES brauni