Anomalurus derbianus Gray 1842

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 : 1532

Anomalurus derbianus Gray 1842

Anomalurus derbianus Gray 1842 , Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 1, 10: 262.

Type Locality: " Sierra Leone ".

Vernacular Names: Lord Derby's Scaly-tailed Squirrel.

Synonyms: Anomalurus beldeni Du Chaillu 1860 ; Anomalurus chrysophaenus Dubois 1888 ; Anomalurus cinereus Thomas 1895 ; Anomalurus erythronotus Milne-Edwards 1879 ; Anomalurus fortior Lönnberg 1917 ; Anomalurus fraseri (Waterhouse 1843) ; Anomalurus griselda Dollman 1914 ; Anomalurus imperator Dollman 1911 ; Anomalurus jacksoni de Winton 1898 ; Anomalurus jordani St. Leger 1935 ; Anomalurus laticeps d’Aquilar-Amat 1922 ; Anomalurus neavei Dollman 1909 ; Anomalurus nigrensis Thomas 1904 ; Anomalurus orientalis Peters 1880 ; Anomalurus perustus Thomas 1914 ; Anomalurus squamicaudus (Schinz 1845) .

Distribution: Sierra Leone, Côte d’Iroire, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Angola, Dem. Rep. Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, N Malawi, Mozambique.

Conservation: CITES – Appendix III ( Ghana); IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). Not mentioned in Schlitter (1989).

Discussion: See Misonne (1974, pt. 6:4-5). Distribution in Côte d’Iroire formerly questionable, but occurrence confirmed by Fischer et al. (2002). Taxa fraseri , imperator and nigrensis were considered "valid as a race" by Rosevear (1969); beldeni , neavei and perustus were considered "well defined subspecies" by Verheyen (1968); laticeps and squamicaudus are synonyms of fraseri ( Allen 1939) ; fortior is a synonym of jacksoni (Verheyen 1968) . There is no proof of the validity of subspecies (A. C. Schunke, in litt.).