ANOMALURIDAE Gervais, 1849

Amori, Giovanni, Segniagbeto, Gabriel Hoinsoude, Decher, Jan, Assou, Delagnon, Gippoliti, Spartaco & Luiselli, Luca, 2016, Non-marine mammals of Togo (West Africa): an annotated checklist, Zoosystema 38 (2), pp. 201-244 : 225-226

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5252/z2016n2a3

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scientific name

ANOMALURIDAE Gervais, 1849
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Family ANOMALURIDAE Gervais, 1849 View in CoL

Anomalurus beecrofti Fraser, 1853 ▶ ( Fig. 25 View FIG )

HISTORICAL LITERATURE. — This species was first cited from Togo by Matschie (1893b).

VOUCHERS. — Nine records, collected by the African Mammal Project at Ezimé, are currently stored at NMNH; and other vouchers are from Apéyémé, Edifou, Misahohe, and Gugu ( Robbins & Van der Straeten 1996; ZMB database). In November 1999 a specimen was collected at Agumatsa Wildlife Sanctuary (Wli Waterfall), Ghana, just across the border from Togo (Decher & Abedi-Larteh 2002) .

REMARK

This species is known from forest and forest-mosaic habitats in southern Togo ( Fig. 25 View FIG ).

Anomalurus derbianus (Gray, 1842)

HISTORICAL LITERATURE. — This species was recorded in Togodo National Park and in Godjinme forest in southern Togo ( Segniagbeto et al. 2015a). Although no museum voucher seems available from Togo, there is a single voucher from eastern Ghana ( Schunke & Hutterer 2005). This species was first cited forTogo by Matschie (1893b).

Anomalurus pelii Schlegel & Müller, 1845

REMARK

This species was cited from Asante ( Ghana) by Matschie (1893b), but would be absent from Togo according to IUCN (2014).

ZMB

Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (Zoological Collections)

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Anomaluridae

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