Heliosciurus gambianus (Ogilby, 1835)

Robert S. Hoffmann & Charles G. Anderson, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Sciuridae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 419-465 : 428

Heliosciurus gambianus (Ogilby, 1835) . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1835:103.

TYPE LOCALITY: Gambia, possibly near Ft. St. Mary, "... brought from the Gambia..." "Through... Mr. Rendali, who has lately arrived from the Gambia, where his brother is lieutenent-governor of Fort St. Mary and the other British possessions in that neighbourhood... "

DISTRIBUTION: Senegal, Gambia, Guinea Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Chad, Central African Republic, Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, Burundi, Tanzania, Zaire, Angola, Zimbabwe, Zambia.

SYNONYMS: abassensis (Neumann, 1902); albina (Gray, 1867); annularis (Schinz, 1845); annulatus (Desmarest, 1822) ; bongensis Heuglin, 1877; canaster Thomas and Hinton, 1923; dysoni (St. Leger, 1937); elegans Thomas, 1909 ; hoogstraali Setzer, 1954 ; kaffensis (Neumann, 1902); lateris (Thomas, 1909); limbatus Schwarz, 1915; loandicus Thomas, 1923; madogae ( Heller, 1911); multicolor (Riippel 1835); omensis (Thomas, 1904); rhodesiae (Wroughton, 1907); senescens Thomas, 1909; simplex (Lesson, 1838).