A survey of small mammals in the Volta Region of Ghana with comments on zoogeography and conservation Author Decher, Jan Mammal Section, Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig, Adenauerallee 160, 53113 Bonn (Germany) and Department of Biology, University of Vermont. Burlington, Vermont 05405 (USA) j. decher @ leibniz-zfmk. de Author Norris, Ryan W. Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, The Ohio State University at Lima, Lima, OH 45804 (USA) ryanwnorris @ gmail. com ryanwnorris@gmail.com Author Abedi-Lartey, Michael Golden Veroleum (Liberia) Inc., Monrovia Office: Unit 102, Wazni Building, 13 th Street and Tubman Boulevard, Sinkor, Monrovia (Liberia) Author Oppong, James Wildlife Division, Forestry Commission, P. O. Box M 239, Accra (Ghana) Author Hutterer, Rainer Mammal Section, Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig, Adenauerallee 160, 53113 Bonn (Germany) Author Weinbrenner, Martin Philosophenweg 12, 77654 Offenburg (Germany) Author Koch, Martin Department of Biogeography, University of Trier, Universitätsring 15, D- 54296 Trier (Germany) Author Podsiadlowski, Lars Mammal Section, Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig, Adenauerallee 160, 53113 Bonn (Germany) Author Kilpatrick, C. William Department of Biology, University of Vermont. Burlington, Vermont 05405 (USA) wkilpatr @ uvm. edu wkilpatr@uvm.edu text Zoosystema 2021 2021-05-20 43 14 253 281 journal article 6523 10.5252/zoosystema2021v43a14 b1eb9973-f581-4a60-9c87-68b7ae4b3591 1638-9387 4783781 urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:7008A933-FE5E-405E-BBAD-8C06D2A8807D Graphiurus nagtglasii Jentink, 1888 ( Fig. 8 ) Graphiurus nagtglasii Jentink, 1888b: 38 . COMMON NAME. — Nagtglas’s Dormouse; EWE: Kade. MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Apesokubi ( Fig. 8 ) • 1 ♂ ; USNM 590101 ; 26.XI.1999 ; Sherman trap on a horizontal branch at 1.5 m height • 2 ♀ ; USNM 590102 ; ZTNHC 972 ; 27.XI.1999 ; Sherman and Victor Rat traps . REMARK All three specimens were caught in this dense traditionally protected forest at Apesokubi. There are 22 specimens from Leklebi Agbesia and one specimen from Odomi Jongo ( 2 miles E Nkwanta), all in the Volta Region in the USNM. Grubb et al. (1998) show two other localities in the Volta Region. The species has also been reported from several localities in the Togo Highlands ( Roche 1971 ; Robbins & Van der Straeten 1996 ). CONSERVATION STATUS. — Graphiurus nagtglasii is listed as “Least Concern” on the IUCN Red List, however, progressive forest loss will marginalize this arboreal species.