Anomalurus beecrofti Fraser, 1853

Fritz Dieterlen, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Anomaluridae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 757-758 : 757

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Anomalurus beecrofti Fraser, 1853 View in CoL . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1852:17 [1853].

TYPE LOCALITY: Equatorial Guinea, "Fernando Po" (= Bioko) .

DISTRIBUTION: Senegal to Uganda and Zaire (Kasai); Bioko ( Equatorial Guinea).

STATUS: CITES - Appendix III ( Ghana).

SYNONYMS: argenteus Schwann, 1904; chapini J. A. Allen, 1922 ; citrinus Thomas, 1916; fulgens Gray, 1869 ; hervoi Dekeyser and Villiers, 1951; laniger Temminck, 1853 ; schoutedeni Verheyen, 1968.

COMMENTS: See Misonne (1974:4). Matschie (1914) placed beecrofti in his subgenus Anomalurops . Includes schoutedeni which is considered a distinct species by Cabral (1971).