Heliosciurus Trouessart, 1880

Denys, Christiane, Missoup, Alain Didier, Nicolas, Violaine, Sylla, Morlaye, Douno, Mory, Kadjo, Blaise, Lalis, Aude & Monadjem, Ara, 2025, Annotated checklist of rodents from a biodiversity hotspot, Mount Nimba (West Africa), Zoosystema 47 (27), pp. 617-689 : 654

Genus Heliosciurus Trouessart, 1880

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REMARKS

The so-called sun squirrels of the genus Heliosciurus are distributed throughout all tropical Africa and represented by six species among which three occur in West Africa ( Monadjem et al. 2015): H. gambianus ( Ogilby, 1835) , H. punctatus ( Temminck, 1853) and H. rufobrachium ( Waterhouse, 1842) . The three species are known to occur on Mount Nimba and in the surrounding regions. The species H. punctatus was previously synonymised with gambianus , but it has recently been rehabilitated. We have found both species in the NHM collections obtained from Mount Nimba.