Epixerus ebii (Temminck 1853) [Sciurus] ebii Temminck 1853, Esquisses Zool. sur la Cote de Guine: 129. Type Locality: Ghana. "...les grandes forêts de la Guiné, et se trouve dans les mêmes localités que l'espèce précédente, [...les confins du pays des Fantes...] mais parait être moins abondante dans les parties boisées de Dabocrom.". Vernacular Names: Western Palm Squirrel. Subspecies:: Subspecies Epixerus ebii subsp. ebii Temminck 1853 Subspecies Epixerus ebii subsp. jonesi Hayman 1954 Subspecies Epixerus ebii subsp. wilsoni Du Chaillu 1860 Distribution: Sierra Leone, Liberia, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana. Conservation: CITES – Appendix III (Ghana); IUCN – Lower Risk (nt) as E. ebii and as E. wilsoni. Discussion: E. ebii and E. wilsoni were formerly considered distinct species by Perret and Aellen (1956), Verheyen (1959), and Rosevear (1969), but Kuhn (1964) revised the genus and concluded that they are conspecific.

Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Sciuridae, pp. 754-818 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 791, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316535