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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER ANOMALUROMORPHA
--> FAMILY Anomaluridae
--> SUBFAMILY Zenkerellinae
--> GENUS Idiurus
SPECIES Idiurus zenkeri
| Author: | Matschie, 1894. | | Citation: | Sitzb. Ges. Naturf. Freunde Berlin: 197, text-f [1894]. | | Common Name: | Pygmy Scaly-tailed Flying Squirrel | | Type Locality: | S Cameroon, Yaounde. | | Distribution: | Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, NE and E Dem. Rep. Congo, W Uganda. See Schunke and Hutterer (2000). | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (nt); "Insufficiently known" according to Schlitter (1989). | | Comments: | Includes kivuensis, originally considered (by Lönnberg), as a subspecies of zenkeri, then considered a valid species by Hayman (1946:211); Verheyen (1963:183) regarded it as a synonym of I. z. zenkeri. Dieterlen (1993:758) included kivuensis erronously in I. macrotis, see comments therein. |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
haymani Verheyen, 1963
kivuensis Lönnberg, 1917
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