Idiurus zenkeri Matschie 1894

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Anomaluridae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 1532-1533 : 1533

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scientific name	Idiurus zenkeri Matschie 1894
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Idiurus zenkeri Matschie 1894 , Sitzb. Ges. Naturf. Fr. Berlin: 197.

Type Locality: S Cameroon, Yaounde.

Vernacular Names: Pygmy Scaly-tailed Flying Squirrel.

Synonyms: Idiurus haymani Verheyen 1963 ; Idiurus kivuensis Lönnberg 1917 .

Distribution: Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, NE and E Dem. Rep. Congo, W Uganda. See Schunke and Hutterer (2000).

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (nt); "Insufficiently known" according to Schlitter (1989).

Discussion: Includes kivuensis , originally considered (by Lönnberg), as a subspecies of zenkeri , then considered a valid species by Hayman (1946:211); Verheyen (1963:183) regarded it as a synonym of I. z. zenkeri . Dieterlen (1993:758) included kivuensis erronously in I. macrotis , see comments therein.