| Kingdom | Phylum | Class | Order | Family |
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| ANIMALIA | CHORDATA | MAMMALIA | RODENTIA | SCIURIDAE |
| Scientific Name: | Myosciurus pumilio | |||
| Species Authority: | (Le Conte, 1857) | |||
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| Red List Category & Criteria: | Least Concern ver 3.1 | |||||||||
| Year Assessed: | 2008 | |||||||||
| Assessor/s | Grubb, P. | |||||||||
| Evaluator/s: | Amori, G. (Small Nonvolant Mammal Red List Authority) & Cox, N. (Global Mammal Assessment Team) | |||||||||
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Justification: Listed as Least Concern in view of its wide distribution, presumed large population, it probably occurs in a number of protected areas, and because it is unlikely to be declining fast enough to qualify for listing in a more threatened category. |
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| Range Description: | This Central African species has been recorded from Cameroon, Gabon, northwestern Congo, and Equatorial Guinea (Rio Muni and Bioko). The record from Eshobi, is now in Cameroon and not in southeastern Nigeria (Happold, 1987). This species may be more widely distributed than is currently known. |
| Countries: |
Native:
Cameroon; Congo; Equatorial Guinea; Gabon
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| Range Map: |
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| Population: | This appears to be an uncommon species. |
| Population Trend: |
Unknown
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| Habitat and Ecology: | This species is associated with lowland tropical moist forest habitats. It is not known if it can persist in secondary forest. It is diurnal, and arboreal, found mainly at lower levels in trees. Primarily solitary, though occasionally seen in pairs. Females with two embryos have been collected in Gabon and on Bioko. |
| Systems: | Terrestrial |
| Major Threat(s): | There are no major threats to this species as a whole, general deforestation is presumably a threat in parts of the species range. |
| Conservation Actions: | This species probably occurs in several protected areas. Additional studies are needed into the persistence of this species in modified habitats. |
| Citation: | Grubb, P. 2008. Myosciurus pumilio. In: IUCN 2009. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2009.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 10 February 2010. |
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