Heliosciurus mutabilis (Peters 1852)
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Heliosciurus mutabilis (Peters 1852) |
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Heliosciurus mutabilis (Peters 1852) View in CoL
[Heliosciurus] mutabilis ( Peters 1852) View in CoL , Bericht Verhandl. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 17: 273.
Type Locality: Mozambique, Boror, 19 km NW of Quelimane, 17°S. "Africa orientalis, Boror, 17° Lat. Austr." .
Vernacular Names: Mutable Sun Squirrel.
Subspecies: :
Subspecies Heliosciurus mutabilis subsp. mutabilis Peters 1852
Subspecies Heliosciurus mutabilis subsp. beirae Roberts 1913
Subspecies Heliosciurus mutabilis subsp. chirindensis Roberts 1913
Subspecies Heliosciurus mutabilis subsp. shirensis Gray 1867
Subspecies Heliosciurus mutabilis subsp. vumbae Roberts 1937
Distribution: Malawi; S and SW highlands, Tanzania; NW of the Zambezi River near Beira ( Mozambique); Chirinda Forest, Melsetter Dist., Sabi/Lundi River confluence, Vumba, Umtali ( SE Zimbabwe).
Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).
Discussion: G. M. Allen (1939) considered mutabilis a distinct species. Ellerman (1940) treated it as a subspecies of H. gambianus following Ingoldby (1927). Rosevear (1963), followed by Amtmann (1975), treated it as a subspecies of H. rufobrachium . Grubb (1982 b) again treated H. mutabilis as a distinct species and recognized the five subspecies above.
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