David Brugire, Marie-Claire Fleury, Marc Colyn
Structure of the squirrel community in the Forêt des Abeilles, central Gabon: rediscovery and revalidation of Funisciurus duchaillui Sanborn, 1953
We examined the taxonomic status of Funisciurus duchaillui, an African
squirrel only known by its holotype collected in 1952 in southern Gabon and
subsequently put in synonymy with F. isabella. From 1993 to 1996 we collected
data on the squirrel community of a study site in central Gabon (ca.
100 km to the north of the locality where the duchaillui holotype was collected)
and we recorded the presence of an unidentified taxon. Using biometric
and phenotypic data on four collected specimens of this taxon along with
data on the vertical distribution, we concluded that: (i) the unidentified specimens
from the study site and the duchaillui holotype belong to the same
taxon; (ii) F. isabella and the duchaillui taxon are two different taxa and (iii)
F. duchaillui is a full species distributed in central and south Gabon and possibly
in southern Congo (Lékoumou region).
Mammalia, Walter de Gruyter
Print ISSN: 0025-1461
Volume: 69, 07/2005
Pages: 223 - 231
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