Red-legged sun squirrel

Red-legged Sun Squirrel
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Sciuridae
Genus:	Heliosciurus
Species:	H. rufobrachium
Binomial name
Heliosciurus rufobrachium (Waterhouse, 1842)
Subspecies[2]
H. r. rufobrachium H. r. arrhenii H. r. aubryi H. r. benga H. r. brauni H. r. caurinus H. r. coenosus H. r. emissus H. r. hardyi H. r. isabellinus H. r. keniae H. r. leakyi H. r. leonensis H. r. lualabae H. r. maculatus H. r. medjianus H. r. nyansae H. r. obfuscatus H. r. occidentalis H. r. pasha H. r. rubricatus H. r. semlikii

The Red-legged Sun Squirrel (Heliosciurus rufobrachium) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is found in Benin, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Togo, and Uganda. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and moist savanna.

References

1. Grubb, P. & Ekué, M. R. M. (2008). Heliosciurus rufobrachium. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 6 January 2009.
2. Thorington, R.W., Jr.; Hoffmann, R.S. (2005). "Family Sciuridae". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. Mammal Species of the World: a taxonomic and geographic reference (3rd ed.). The Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 754–818. ISBN 0-8018-8221-4. OCLC 26158608.