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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

SUBSPECIES caurinus

SUBSPECIES coenosus

SUBSPECIES emissus

SUBSPECIES hardyi

SUBSPECIES isabellinus

SUBSPECIES keniae

SUBSPECIES leakyi

SUBSPECIES leonensis

SUBSPECIES lualabae

SUBSPECIES maculatus

SUBSPECIES medjianus

SUBSPECIES nyansae

SUBSPECIES obfuscatus

SUBSPECIES occidentalis

SUBSPECIES pasha

SUBSPECIES rubricatus

SUBSPECIES semlikii

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