Heliosciurus punctatus (Temminck, 1853)

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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Heliosciurus punctatus (Temminck, 1853) View in CoL Esquisses Zool. sur la Côte de Guiné, p. 138.

TYPE LOCALITY: Guinea coast, no exact locality given, " ...dans toutes les forêts de la Guiné..." Given by Ingoldby (1927) as Ghana: "Secondi and Bibiani, Gold Coast."

DISTRIBUTION: E Liberia, S Ivory Coast, S Ghana (E to Lake Volta).

SYNONYMS: savannius Thomas, 1923.

COMMENTS: Treated as a subspecies of H. gambianus by Ingoldby (1927), Ellerman (1940), Rosevear (1969), and Amtmann (1975). Considered a distinct species by Allen (1939), and Roth and Thorington (1982).