Otolemur crassicaudatus

(E. Geoffroy, 1812)

Brown Greater Galago

Figure 1. Photograph by B. Stanley.

Figure 2. FMNH 173696. Photograph by R. Banasiak.

Type Description:

Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, 19:166

Type Locality:

Mozambique, Quelimani (see Thomas, 1917b).

Measurements:

Head and body: 270-465 mm

Tail length: 325-520 mm

Weight: 1034-1241 g

Distribution:

Distributed throughout the central part of the continent from Angola in the west to Tanzania and Mozambique in the east, Otolemur crassicaudatus is found in dense vegetation, riverine forest, isolated thicket, bamboo, coastal and montane areas like the lower slopes of the Uluguru Mountains, Kilimanjaro Mtn. and the Kikuyu Highlands. (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, 1:290-299.
2. Kingdon, J. 1997. The Kingdon field guide to African mammals, AP Natural World Academic Press, Harcourt Brace & Company, San Diego, p. 97.
3. Nowak, R. M. 1999. Walker's Mammals of the World. Sixth ed. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1:493, 502-503.