Galago senegalensis

E. Geoffroy, 1796

Senegal Bushbaby

Figure 1. Photograph by P. Lai.

Figure 2. FMNH 153088. Photograph by R. Banasiak.

Type Description:

Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, E. 1796. Mammiferes. Memoire sur les rapports naturels des Makis Lemur. Magazin encycl., 1:20-50.

Type Locality:

Senegal.

Measurements:

Head and body: 145-200 mm

Tail length: 205-303 mm

Weight: 108-300 g

Distribution:

Ranging throughout savannas, bushland, and woodlands up to 2,000 m, Galago senegalensis is distributed from Senegal east to Ethiopia, Kenya and down into Tanzania and Uganda. (Kingdon, 1984, 1997)

Figure 3.

Key Reference:

1. Kingdon, J. 1984. East African mammals: An atlas of evolution in Africa. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1:316-319.
2. Kingdon, J. 1997. The Kingdon field guide to African mammals, AP Natural World Academic Press, Harcourt Brace & Company, San Diego, p. 103.
3. Nowak, R. M. 1999. Walker's Mammals of the World. Sixth ed. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1:493, 500-502.
4. Swynnerton, G. H., and R. W. Hayman. 1951. A checklist of the land mammals of the Tanganyika Territory and the Zanzibar Protectorate. Journal of the East African Natural History Society, 20(6):274-392.