Otolemur garnettii

(Ogilby, 1838)

Northern Greater Galago

Figure 1. FMNH 153090. Photograph by R. Banasiak.

Type Description:

Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1838:6

Type Locality:

Zanzibar (designated by Thomas, 1917b:48).

Measurements:

Total length: 645 mm

Head and body: 230-340 mm

Tail length: 300-440 mm

Hindfoot length: 92 mm

Ear length: 47 mm

Weight: 550-1200 g

Distribution:

Otolemur garnettii is found in coastal and montane forest areas like the dry, low-canopy and florally impoverished slopes of the Uluguru Mountains, Kilimanjaro Mtn. and the Kikuyu Highlands. This species can also be found in riverine galleries with Acacia growth, cultivation mosaics and urban suburbs from southern Tanzanian border up into Kenya and southern Somalia. (Kingdon, 1984, 1997)

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. 98.
3. Nowak, R. M. 1999. Walker's Mammals of the World. Sixth ed. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1:493, 502-503.