Poiana leightoni, Pocock, 1908
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/FC03440B-FFEA-FF8A-EF8E-429AFEB2F844 |
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Conny |
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Poiana leightoni |
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Leighton’s Oyan
French: Poiane de Leighton / German: Westafrikanischer Linsang / Spanish: Oyan occidental
Other common names: \West African Linsang, Leighton’s Linsang
Taxonomy. Poiana leightoni Pocock, 1908 View in CoL ,
Liberia.
Has been considered a subspecies of the Central African Oyan ( FP richardsonii ).
Monotypic
Distribution. Ivory Coast and Liberia. Its presence in SE Guinea requires confirmation. View Figure
Descriptive notes. Head-body 30-38 cm, tail 35-40 cm; weight 500-700 g. A small, slender genetlike carnivore. The dorsal pelage is soft and very short. The coat color is yellowish-fawn; the ventral pelage is white. There are large irregular spots on the back and flanks, and much smaller spots on the foreand hindlimbs, and on the flanks near the belly; these spots are more or less arranged into four to five longitudinal rows and form longitudinal stripes on the neck. A dark, sometimes interrupted, mid-dorsal stripe runs from between the shoulders to the base of the tail. There are ten to twelve chevron-shaped dark tail-rings (narrowerlaterally and ventrally). Dental formula: 13/3, C1/1,P 4/4, M 1/2 = 38.
Habitat. Rainforest.
Food and Feeding. Diet is said to include insects, birds, and plants.
Activity patterns. Nothing known.
Movements, Home range and Social organization. Said to build a round nest of green material in trees, at least two meters from the ground.
Breeding. Nothing known.
Status and Conservation. Classified as Data Deficient on The IUCN Red List. Known only from a dozen museum specimens; the most recent records are two skins collected in 1988 from eastern Liberia. Major threats to this species are not known, but it is probably being affected by ongoing habitat loss in the upper Guinean forests. This is a priority species for survey work in order to determine its current range and population status, and to investigate its ecology.
Bibliography. Gaubert (2003b), Rosevear (1974), Schreiber et al. (1989), Van Rompaey & Colyn (In press |), Wozencraft (2005).
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