Epixerus ebii (Temminck 1853)

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Sciuridae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 754-818 : 791

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scientific name	Epixerus ebii (Temminck 1853)
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[Sciurus] ebii Temminck 1853 , Esquisses Zool. sur la Cote de Guine: 129.

Type Locality: Ghana. "...les grandes forêts de la Guiné, et se trouve dans les mêmes localités que l'espèce précédente, [...les confins du pays des Fantes...] mais parait être moins abondante dans les parties boisées de Dabocrom." .

Vernacular Names: Western Palm Squirrel.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Epixerus ebii subsp. ebii Temminck 1853

Subspecies Epixerus ebii subsp. jonesi Hayman 1954

Subspecies Epixerus ebii subsp. wilsoni Du Chaillu 1860

Distribution: Sierra Leone, Liberia, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana.

Conservation: CITES – Appendix III ( Ghana); IUCN – Lower Risk (nt) as E. ebii and as E. wilsoni .

Discussion: E. ebii and E. wilsoni were formerly considered distinct species by Perret and Aellen (1956), Verheyen (1959), and Rosevear (1969), but Kuhn (1964) revised the genus and concluded that they are conspecific.