Abstract
We examined the taxonomic status of Funisciurus duchaillui, an African squirrel only known by its holotype collected in 1952 in southern Gabon and subsequently put in synonymy with F. isabella. From 1993 to 1996 we collected data on the squirrel community of a study site in central Gabon (ca. 100 km to the north of the locality where the duchaillui holotype was collected) and we recorded the presence of an unidentified taxon. Using biometric and phenotypic data on four collected specimens of this taxon along with data on the vertical distribution, we concluded that: (i) the unidentified specimens from the study site and the duchaillui holotype belong to the same taxon; (ii) F. isabella and the duchaillui taxon are two different taxa and (iii) F. duchaillui is a full species distributed in central and south Gabon and possibly in southern Congo (Lékoumou region).
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