Heliosciurus gambianus (Ogilby 1835) [Sciurus] gambianus Ogilby 1835, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1835: 103. Type Locality: Gambia, possibly near Ft. St. Mary. "...brought from the Gambia ..." "Through... Mr. Rendall, who has lately arrived from the Gambia, where his brother is lieutenent-governor of Fort St. Mary and the other British possessions in that neighbourhood...". Vernacular Names: Gambian Sun Squirrel. Subspecies:: Subspecies Heliosciurus gambianus subsp. gambianus Ogilby 1835 Subspecies Heliosciurus gambianus subsp. abassensis Neumann 1902 Subspecies Heliosciurus gambianus subsp. bongensis Heuglin 1877 Subspecies Heliosciurus gambianus subsp. canaster Thomas and Hinton 1923 Subspecies Heliosciurus gambianus subsp. dysoni St. Leger 1937 Subspecies Heliosciurus gambianus subsp. elegans Thomas 1909 Subspecies Heliosciurus gambianus subsp. hoogstraali Setzer 1954 Subspecies Heliosciurus gambianus subsp. kaffensis Neumann 1902 Subspecies Heliosciurus gambianus subsp. lateris Thomas 1909 Subspecies Heliosciurus gambianus subsp. limbatus Schwarz 1915 Subspecies Heliosciurus gambianus subsp. loandicus Thomas 1923 Subspecies Heliosciurus gambianus subsp. madogae Heller 1911 Subspecies Heliosciurus gambianus subsp. multicolor Rüppell 1835 Subspecies Heliosciurus gambianus subsp. omensis Thomas 1904 Subspecies Heliosciurus gambianus subsp. rhodesiae Wroughton 1907 Subspecies Heliosciurus gambianus subsp. senescens Thomas 1909 Distribution: Senegal, Gambia, Guinea Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Côte d’Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Chad, Central African Republic, Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, Burundi, Tanzania, Dem. Rep. Congo, Angola, Zimbabwe, Zambia. Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

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 793, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316535