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Red-legged Sun Squirrel
Heliosciurus rufobrachium (G. R. Waterhouse, 1842)

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Chordata - chordates »  class Mammalia - mammals »  order Rodentia - rodents »  family Sciuridae - squirrels »  genus Heliosciurus

Scientific synonyms

Heliosciurus rufobrachium acticola Thomas, 1923
Heliosciurus rufo-brachiatus (Waterhouse, 1843)

Other names

= Isabelline Red-legged Sun Squirrel

Images

Heliosciurus rufobrachium - Red-legged Sun Squirrel

Author: Klaus Rudloff

Heliosciurus rufobrachium - Red-legged Sun Squirrel

Author: Klaus Rudloff

Heliosciurus rufobrachium - Red-legged Sun Squirrel

Author: Klaus Rudloff

Heliosciurus rufobrachium - Red-legged Sun Squirrel

Author: Klaus Rudloff

Heliosciurus rufobrachium - Red-legged Sun Squirrel

Author: Klaus Rudloff

Heliosciurus rufobrachium - Red-legged Sun Squirrel

Author: Klaus Rudloff

Heliosciurus rufobrachium - Red-legged Sun Squirrel

Author: Klaus Rudloff

Included taxa

Number of records: 22

subspecies Heliosciurus rufobrachium arrhenii (Lönnberg, 1917)
subspecies Heliosciurus rufobrachium aubryi (Milne-Edwards, 1867)
subspecies Heliosciurus rufobrachium benga Cabrera, 1917
subspecies Heliosciurus rufobrachium brauni St. Leger, 1935
subspecies Heliosciurus rufobrachium caurinus Thomas, 1923
subspecies Heliosciurus rufobrachium coenosus (Thomas, 1909)
subspecies Heliosciurus rufobrachium emissus Thomas, 1923
subspecies Heliosciurus rufobrachium hardyi Thomas, 1923
subspecies Heliosciurus rufobrachium isabellinus (Gray, 1867)
subspecies Heliosciurus rufobrachium keniae (Neumann, 1902)
subspecies Heliosciurus rufobrachium leakyi Toschi, 1946
subspecies Heliosciurus rufobrachium leonensis Thomas, 1923
subspecies Heliosciurus rufobrachium lualabae Thomas, 1923
subspecies Heliosciurus rufobrachium maculatus (Temminck, 1853)
subspecies Heliosciurus rufobrachium medjianus J. A. Allen, 1922
subspecies Heliosciurus rufobrachium nyansae (Neumann, 1902)
subspecies Heliosciurus rufobrachium obfuscatus (Thomas, 1923)
subspecies Heliosciurus rufobrachium occidentalis (Monard, 1941)
subspecies Heliosciurus rufobrachium pasha (Schwann, 1904)
subspecies Heliosciurus rufobrachium rubricatus J. A. Allen, 1922
subspecies Heliosciurus rufobrachium rufobrachium (Waterhouse, 1842)
subspecies Heliosciurus rufobrachium semlikii Thomas, 1907

Links and literature

EN IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2024-1 [9833]

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species [http://www.iucnredlist.org/] [as Heliosciurus rufobrachium (Waterhouse, 1842)]
Data retrieved on: 29 January 2024
EN ASM Mammal Diversity Database 2.1 [1001816]

ASM Mammal Diversity Database [https://www.mammaldiversity.org/], American Society of Mammalogists [as Heliosciurus rufobrachium (G. R. Waterhouse, 1842)]
Data retrieved on: 29 May 2025
EN Wilson D. E., Reeder D. M. (editors) (2005): Mammal Species of the World (MSW). A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed) [http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3] [as Heliosciurus rufobrachium Waterhouse, 1842]
Data retrieved on: 5 December 2008
CZ Anděra M. (1999): České názvy živočichů II. Savci (Mammalia), Národní muzeum, (zoologické odd.), Praha, 147 pp. [as Heliosciurus rufobrachium (Waterhouse, 1842)]

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