Heliosciurus ruwenzorii (Schwann, 1904)

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 : 429

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DOI

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scientific name

Heliosciurus ruwenzorii (Schwann, 1904)
status

 

Heliosciurus ruwenzorii (Schwann, 1904) View in CoL . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 13:71.

TYPE LOCALITY: E Zaire, Ruwenzori, Wimi Valley .

DISTRIBUTION: Ruwenzori Mtns in E Zaire; Rwanda; Burundi; SW Uganda.

SYNONYMS: ituriensis (Prigogone, 1954); schoutedeni (Prigogine, 1954); vulcanius Thomas, 1909.

COMMENTS: Formerly included in Aethosciurus , which is here included in Paraxerus following Moore (1959).

Moore, J. C. 1959. Relationships among the living squirrels of the Sciurinae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 118 (4): 157 - 206.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Sciuridae

Genus

Heliosciurus