Galago senegalensis

É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1796

Northern Lesser Galago

Also as Senegal Bushbaby|Senegal Galago|Ethiopia Lesser Galago|Kenya Lesser Galago|Senegal Lesser Galago|Uganda Lesser Galago.
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Location:Germany, Berlin, Zoological GardenDate taken:Mar 3, 2011

Image courtesy of the ASM Mammal Images Library · MIL ID: 5257

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Euarchontoglires
Order : Primates
Suborder : Strepsirrhini
Infraorder : Lorisiformes
Family : Galagidae
Subfamily : Galaginae
Genus : Galago

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, É. 1796. Mémoire sur les rapports naturels des Makis Lemur, L. et Déscription d'un nouvelle espèce de Mammifère. Magasin encyclopédique 1796(1):20-50.

Authority publication link

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k424107b/f18

Original name as described

Galago Senegalensis

Other common names

Senegal Bushbaby · Senegal Galago · Ethiopia Lesser Galago · Kenya Lesser Galago · Senegal Lesser Galago · Uganda Lesser Galago

Type material

MNHN-ZM-2007-1547 (= MNHN:type:143) (= MNHN "192")

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

http://coldb.mnhn.fr/catalognumber/mnhn/zm/2007-1547

Type locality

Senegal, French West Africa.

Biogeographic realm

Afrotropic

Country distribution

Mauritania · Senegal · Gambia · Guinea · Sierra Leone · Guinea-Bissau · Mali · Cote d'Ivoire · Ghana · Burkina Faso · Togo · Benin · Niger · Nigeria · Cameroon · Chad · Central African Republic · Sudan · South Sudan · Democratic Republic of the Congo · Ethiopia · Eritrea · Somalia · Kenya · Uganda · Rwanda · Burundi · Tanzania

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

Species Permalink

https://mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1001045

Country distribution map

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Names and synonyms

Present and past (if available) associated names to the species. Click on a name to view its details.

Total: 32 names and synonyms.

Galago Senegalensis

É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1796

Family

Galagidae

Root name

senegalensis

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

MNHN-ZM-2007-1547 (= MNHN:type:143) (= MNHN "192")

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

http://coldb.mnhn.fr/catalognumber/mnhn/zm/2007-1547

Authority page

49

Authority publication

Magasin encyclopédique

Name usages

  1. Lacépède (1799:5) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/62452)
  2. Audebert (1800:27, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/58948937) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/68278)
  3. Shaw (1800:113, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41150788) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/37615)
  4. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1803:39) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/19153)
  5. Fischer (1803:118, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/47061725) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/69311)
  6. Fischer (1804:42) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/35209)
  7. Goldfuss (1809:88, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/47497922) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/34654)
  8. Fischer (1813:437, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29109548) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/49925)
  9. Rafinesque (1817:361) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/35234)
  10. Muirhead (1819:406) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/69481)
  11. Ranzani (1820:164, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27804562) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/69437)
  12. Desmarest (1821:104, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39523868) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/34459)
  13. Schinz (1825:288, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/51523705) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/66129)
  14. Lesson (1827:71, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/54207539) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/36839)
  15. Fischer (1829:68) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59856)
  16. Gray (1863:147, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30681467) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/41287)
  17. Mivart (1865:647, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28500990) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/36803)
  18. Murray (1866:323, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15580319) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/39798)
  19. Gray (1871:84, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9994601) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/21655)
  20. Milne-Edwards (1871:226) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/69142)
  21. Schlegel (1876:329, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14895394) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67480)
  22. Bocage (1882:25, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16211308) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/68546)
  23. Bocage (1889:13, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3418962) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67736)
  24. Flower & Lydekker (1891:691, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46965906) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/34115)
  25. Elliot (1913:72, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40602562) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/35489)
  26. Schwarz (1931:51) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/19499)
  27. Shortridge (1934:11) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/69309)
  28. Zimara (1935:13) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67232)
  29. Lawrence & Washburn (1936:256) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/68963)
  30. Hayman (1936:918) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/14108)
  31. Allen (1939:118, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2782628) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/5450)
  32. Hill & Carter (1941:62) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/16955)
  33. Ellerman, Morrison-Scott & Hayman (1953:91) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/34033)
  34. Ellerman, Morrison-Scott & Hayman (1953:91) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/34033)
  35. Setzer (1956:467, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7489073) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/5501)
  36. Hayman (1963:109) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/68592)
  37. Corbet & Hill (1980:84) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63069)
  38. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl (1982:222) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63071)
  39. Corbet & Hill (1991:93) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63070)
  40. Groves (1993:249) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/69008)
  41. Yalden, Largen, Kock & Hillman (1996:93) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/36072)
  42. Grubb, Butynski, Oates, Bearder, Disotell, Groves & Struhsaker (2003:1318) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/4919)
  43. Groves (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8549)
  44. Groves (2006:5) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/5250)
  45. Mittermeier, Rylands & Wilson (2013:200) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59513)
  46. Butynski, Kingdon & Kalina (2013:425) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/37955)
  47. Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #8789) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
  48. Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #8789) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
  49. Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1001045) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)
  50. International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/8789/17963505) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

Lemur galago

(G. Cuvier, 1797)

Family

Galagidae

Root name

galago

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

nomen_novum

Type

MNHN-ZM-2007-1547 (= MNHN:type:143) (= MNHN "192")

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

http://coldb.mnhn.fr/catalognumber/mnhn/zm/2007-1547

Authority page

101

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11637183

Authority publication

Paris

Name usages

  1. Cuvier (1797:101, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11637183) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/38531)
  2. Groves (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8549)

Lemur Calago

(G. K. Shaw, 1800)

Family

Galagidae

Root name

calago

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Authority page

108

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41150783

Authority publication

London

Name usages

  1. Shaw (1800:108, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41150783) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/37615)
  2. Griffith (1821:140) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/68343)
  3. Groves (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8549)

Galago geoffroyi

G. Fischer, 1806

Family

Galagidae

Root name

geoffroyi

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

nomen_novum

Type

MNHN-ZM-2007-1547 (= MNHN:type:143) (= MNHN "192")

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

http://coldb.mnhn.fr/catalognumber/mnhn/zm/2007-1547

Authority publication

Mémoires de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou

Name usages

Groves (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8549)

Macropus Geoffroyi

(G. Fischer, 1808)

Family

Galagidae

Root name

geoffroyi

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

63

Authority publication

Commentationes Societatis Physico-Medicae, apud Universitatem Literarum Caesaream Mosquensem Institutae

Name usages

Fischer (1808:63) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/69284)

Galago Geoffroy

G. Fischer, 1811

Family

Galagidae

Root name

geoffroy

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

incorrectsubsequentspelling

Authority page

12

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10123047

Authority publication

Mémoires de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou

Name usages

Fischer (1811:12, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10123047) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/69286)

Macropus Geoffroy

(G. Fischer, 1813)

Family

Galagidae

Root name

geoffroy

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

namecombination · incorrectsubsequent_spelling

Authority page

557

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29109668

Authority publication

Moscow

Name usages

Fischer (1813:557, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29109668) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/49925)

Otolicnus Galago

(F. S. Voigt, 1819)

Family

Galagidae

Root name

galago

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

408

Authority publication

Jena

Name usages

  1. Voigt (1819:408) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/69477)
  2. Wagner (1853:158, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31544265) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/38201)
  3. Fitzinger (1855:117) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/65926)

Otolicnus Senegalensis

(H. R. Schinz, 1821)

Family

Galagidae

Root name

senegalensis

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

148

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/51528905

Authority publication

Stuttgart

Name usages

  1. Schinz (1821:148, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/51528905) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/37604)
  2. Anonymous (1835:284, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13702505) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/68892)
  3. Smith (1842:111) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67141)
  4. Peters (1852:11) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/61421)
  5. Rochebrune (1883:84, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/26187537) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/43667)

Galago acaciarum

Lesson, 1840

Family

Galagidae

Root name

acaciarum

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

nomen_novum

Type

MNHN-ZM-2007-1547 (= MNHN:type:143) (= MNHN "192")

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

http://coldb.mnhn.fr/catalognumber/mnhn/zm/2007-1547

Authority page

246

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9358437

Authority publication

Paris

Name usages

  1. Lesson (1842:10) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/36812)
  2. Groves (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8549)

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