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Heliosciurus rufobrachium (Rodentia: Sciuridae)

Published:2019-08-30 Issue:978 Volume:51 Page:61-69
ISSN:0076-3519
Container-title:Mammalian Species
language:en
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Author:

Thomas Howard H¹,Best Troy L²,Agwanda Bernard³

Affiliation:

1. Department of Birds and Mammals, San Diego Natural History Museum, San Diego, CA, USA

2. Department of Biological Sciences, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA

3. Mammalogy Department, National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya

Abstract

Abstract Heliosciurus rufobrachium (Waterhouse, 1842), one of six species of Heliosciurus, is a sciurid commonly called red-legged sun squirrel. It is a medium-sized diurnally adapted tree squirrel occurring at ground-level to upper heights of the canopy of mature forests. It ranges from the west coast of Africa to Garissa County, Kenya. Adapted to an arboreal life, its frugivorous diet makes it a seed disperser for forest plants. In portions of West Africa, it serves as a source of bushmeat and it is a reservoir for human monkey-pox virus and Trypanosoma brucei, which causes African sleeping sickness. H. rufobrachium is listed as “Least Concern” by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources.

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

Subject

Animal Science and Zoology,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

Link

http://academic.oup.com/mspecies/article-pdf/51/978/61/30073575/sez010.pdf

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