Heliosciurus rufobrachium (Waterhouse, 1842)

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

Heliosciurus rufobrachium (Waterhouse, 1842) . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., [ser. 1], 10:202.

TYPE LOCALITY: Equatorial Guinea, Bioko " ... brought from Fernando Po..." .

DISTRIBUTION: Senegal, W Gambia, W Guinea Bissau, W Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, S Ivory Coast, S Ghana, S Togo, Benin, S Nigeria, Cameroon, Bioko and Rio Muni ( Equatorial Guinea), SW Central African Republic, SE Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, SW and SE Kenya, E and NW Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, E Zimbabwe, Zaire.

SYNONYMS: acticola Thomas, 1923; arrhenii (Lönnberg, 1917); aschantiensis (Neumann, 1902); aubryi ( Milne-Edwards, 1867); benga Cabrera, 1917; brauni St. Leger, 1935; caurinus Thomas, 1923; coenosus (Thomas, 1909); emissus Thomas, 1923; hardyi Thomas, 1923; isabellinus (Gray, 1867); keniae (Neumann, 1902); leonensis Thomas, 1923; libericus (Miller, 1900); lualabae Thomas, 1923; maculatus (Temminck, 1853); medjianus Allen, 1922; nyansae (Neuman, 1902); obfuscatus Thomas, 1923; occidentalis (Monard, 1941); pasha (Schwann, 1904); rubricatus Allen, 1922; rufo-brachiatus (Waterhouse, 1843); semlikii Thomas, 1907; waterhousii (Gray, 1867); leakyi Toschi, 1946.

COMMENTS: Inclusion of aubryi and emissus questioned ( Amtmann, 1975; Grubb, 1978:158).