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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER SCIUROMORPHA
--> FAMILY Sciuridae
--> SUBFAMILY Xerinae
--> TRIBE Protoxerini
--> GENUS Funisciurus
SPECIES Funisciurus pyrropus
| Author: | F. Cuvier, 1833. | | Citation: | In E. Geoffroy and F. Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Mammifères, 7(No. 66 "Ecureuil aux pieds roux"): 2 unno. pp and pl. [1833]; Tab 4:240 [1842]. | | Common Name: | Fire-footed Rope Squirrel | | Type Locality: | Gabon. "...et elle venoit de l'île Fernandopô, dans le gulfe de Guinée..." | | Distribution: | Gambia, S Senegal, Guinea Bissau, W Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, S Côte d’Ivoire, SW Ghana, W Nigeria, W Cameroon, Rio Muni (Equatorial Guinea), W Republic of Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Dem. Rep. Congo, NW Angola. | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | Cuvier wrote, "Je donnerai à cet Écuriel le nom de Pyrropus, á cause de la couleur rousse de ses pieds." Schinz (1845) spelled the species name pyrrhopus with no mention of the previous spelling. This constitutes an unjustified emendation. Not found on Bioko, Equatorial Guinea (= "Fernandopô", see type locality), and since the animal was a pet, it probably was captured on the mainland (Thomas, 1890:447). |
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