GALAGIDAE Gray, 1825

Amori, Giovanni, Segniagbeto, Gabriel Hoinsoude, Decher, Jan, Assou, Delagnon, Gippoliti, Spartaco & Luiselli, Luca, 2016, Non-marine mammals of Togo (West Africa): an annotated checklist, Zoosystema 38 (2), pp. 201-244 : 224

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https://doi.org/ 10.5252/z2016n2a3

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scientific name

GALAGIDAE Gray, 1825
status

 

Family GALAGIDAE Gray, 1825 View in CoL

Galago senegalensis E. Geoffroy, 1796

VOUCHERS. — Two specimens, captured at Pagala, are currently stored in the NMNH.

Galagoides demidoff (G. Fischer, 1806)

VOUCHERS. — One voucher from Bismarckburg (Adéle), is stored at ZMB ( Matschie 1893b), one from Kluto at IFAN and some specimens, captured at Ezimé and Agou, are at NMNH.

REMARK

All the above-mentioned specimens were identified as Galagoides demidoff . In addition, this species was the only Galagoides species identified in Togo by Masters & Couette (2015) on the basis of morphometric analysis of craniodental characters. Nonetheless, G. demidoff would not occur in Togo and in the Dahomey Gap according to Oates (2011), where it should be present instead of Galagoides thomasi (Elliot, 1907) (see below). In Togo, G. demidoff occurs both in the moist forests of EZ IV and in the dry forests of the southern and central part of the country.

Galagoides thomasi (Elliot, 1907)

REMARK This species occurs in the country according to Oates (2011), Ambrose & Butynski (2013) and IUCN (2014), in sympatry with G. demidoff .

AMBROSE L. & BUTYNSKI T. M. 2013. - Galagoides thomasi Thomas Dwarf Galago, in BUTYNSKI T. M., KINGDON J. & KALINA J. (eds), Mammals of Africa, Volume II. Primates. Bloomsbury, London, 462 - 466.

MASTERS J. C. & COUETTE S. 2015. - Characterizing cryptic species: a morphometric analysis of craniodental characters in the dwarf galago genus Galagoides. American Journal Of Physical Anthropology 158: 288 - 299.

MATSCHIE P. 1893 b. - Saugethiere des Togogebietes, in Beitrage zur Fauna des Togolandes. Mittheilungen aus den deutschen Schutzegebieten 6: 162 - 180.

OATES J. F. 2011. - Primates of West Africa, A field Guide and Natural History. Conservation International Tropical field Guide Series. Arlington, VA 22202 USA, 555 p.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Primates

Family

Galagidae

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Primates

Family

Galagidae

Genus

Galago