Anomalurus beecrofti Fraser, 1852

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 : 657

Anomalurus beecrofti Fraser, 1852

Anomalurus beecrofti Fraser, 1852: 17 .

Anomalurops beecrofti – Rosevear 1969: 160.

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This slightly smaller species was collected by Coe (1975) and Misonne & Verschuren (1976) on the Liberian side of the Mount. We were unable to find any specimen in the MNHN Lamotte’s collection. Two specimens are preserved in NMK (NMK393 and NMK110: Appendix 7). Roche (1971) reported a single individual from Seredou ( Guinea).

This species is characterized by a large variability of color and fur pattern ( Rosevear 1969; Schunke & Hutterer 2005). It can be distinguished from A. derbianus by a tail that does not end in a black terminal brush and there may be some orange color in the ventral pelage ( Monadjem et al. 2015). We could not find any collection specimen with an intact skull. The GLS of the two NMK specimens were 56.0 and 52.3 mm.