Paraxerus flavovittis (Peters, 1852)

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 : 435

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.7353130

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7352914

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scientific name

Paraxerus flavovittis (Peters, 1852)
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Paraxerus flavovittis (Peters, 1852) View in CoL . Bericht Verhandl. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 17:274.

TYPE LOCALITY: NE Mozambique, Mocimboa, 11 °S on the coast. "Africa orientalis, Mossimboa, Quitangonha, a 11 ° ad 15° Lat. Austr."

DISTRIBUTION: S Kenya, Tanzania, N Mozambique.

SYNONYMS: exgeanus (Hinton, 1920); ibeanus (Hinton, 1920); mossambicus ( Thomas, 1919).

COMMENTS: Commonly spelled flavivittis but this was an unjustified emendation by Peters (1852).

Peters, W. C. H. 1852. Reise nach Mossambique. I. Saugethiere. Druck & Verlag, Berlin, 202 pp.

Thomas, O. 1919. On small mammals from Otro Cerro north-eastern Rioja, collected by Sr. E. Budin. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 9, 3: 489 - 500.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Sciuridae

Genus

Paraxerus