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SPECIES Poiana leightoni

Author:Pocock, 1907.
Actual Date:1908
Citation:Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1907: 1043.
Common Name:Leighton’s Linsang
Type Locality:"fifteen to twenty miles [24 to 32 km] west of the Putu Mountains, which lie west of the Duobe and Cavally Rivers. The Cavally River is the eastern boundary line between Liberia and the Côte d’Ivoire, and the Duobe is one of its tributaries joining the Cavally about seventy miles [113 km], as the crow flies, from its mouth, after running for over one hundred miles [161 km] nearly parallel to the main stream" [Liberia].
Distribution:Côte d’Ivoire, Liberia.
Status:IUCN – Data Deficient as P. richardsonii liberiensis.
Comments:Pocock (1907b:1045) mentioned that there was one specimen in the British Museum labeled "Sierra Leone", but he believed that the "locality is probably erroneous." Coetzee (1977b) considered leightoni a lapsus and replaced with liberiensis.
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    liberiensis Pocock, 1908

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