Galago zanzibaricus

Matschie, 1893

Zanzibar Bushbaby

Figure 1. Photograph by B. Hayes.

Figure 2. FMNH 177220. Photograph by R. Banasiak.

Type Description:

Sitzb. Ges. Naturf. Fr. Berlin, p. 111

Type Locality:

Tanzania, Zanzibar, Yambiani.

Measurements:

Head and body: 140-165 mm

Tail length: 200-230 mm

Weight: 120 g

Distribution:

Galago zanzibaricus is distributed throughout the coastal lowland rainforests and thickets, riverine forests and secondary growth, including cultivation mosaics and gardens along the coastal strip between the Tana River and the Rufiji River and also occurring on Zanzibar Island. (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, 1:308-315.
2. Kingdon, J. 1997. The Kingdon field guide to African mammals, AP Natural World Academic Press, Harcourt Brace & Company, San Diego, p. 107-108.
3. Nowak, R. M. 1999. Walker's Mammals of the World. Sixth ed. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1:493, 503-505.
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.