Beecroft's Flying Squirrel

Taxobox
name = Beecroft's Flying Squirrel


status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
familia = Anomaluridae
genus = "Anomalurus"
species = "A. beecrofti"
binomial = "Anomalurus beecrofti"
binomial_authority = Fraser, 1853
synonyms = "Anomalurops beecrofti" (Fraser, 1853)The Beecroft's Flying Squirrel or Beecroft's Scaly-tailed Squirrel ("Anomalurus beecrofti") is a species of rodent in the Anomaluridae family (Dieterlen, 2005). Some authorities (Hutterer & Grubb, 2004) consider it to be monotypic within the genus "Anomalurops".It is found in Angola, Cameroon, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo, Uganda, and Zambia.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, and plantations .It is threatened by habitat loss.

References

*Dieterlen, F. 2005. Family Anomaluridae. Pp. 1532-1534 "in" Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
* Hutterer, R. & Grubb, P. 2004. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/44857/all Anomalurops beecrofti] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 29 July 2007.