Epixerus Thomas, 1909

Denys, Christiane, Missoup, Alain Didier, Nicolas, Violaine, Sylla, Morlaye, Douno, Mory, Kadjo, Blaise, Lalis, Aude & Monadjem, Ara, 2025, Annotated checklist of rodents from a biodiversity hotspot, Mount Nimba (West Africa), Zoosystema 47 (27), pp. 617-689 : 656

Genus Epixerus Thomas, 1909

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REMARKS

This monospecific genus occurs in Upper Guinea rainforest of West and Central Africa ( Monadjem et al. 2015). This is a ground squirrel that is recorded in Liberia, Sierra Leone and extreme South Guinea ( Grubb et al. 1998, Koprowski et al. 2016). Hayman (1954) described the species E. jonesi from Sierra Leone but in a comprehensive revision of the genus, Kuhn (1964) concluded to its synonymy with E. ebii . Following Koprowski et al. (2016) we assigned the Mount Nimba specimens to E. ebii jonesi .