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 Epomops buettikoferi ( Matschie, 1899 ) Epomophorus büttikoferi Matschie, 1899: 45 . COMMON NAME. — Büttikofer’s Epauletted Fruit Bat; EWE: Aguto. MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Apesokubi • 1 adult ♀ with a 53 mm long embryo; 27.VIII.2001 ; SMF 92116 . REMARK Essentially an Upper Guinea forest species with some disjunct populations east of the Dahomey Gap in Nigeria ( Bergmans 1989 ; Thomas & Henry 2013 ). All previous Ghanaian specimens were from the rainforest zone in SW Ghana west of the Volta River ( Bergmans 1989 ; Grubb et al. 1998 ). Thus, our specimen is the first record east of the Volta in Ghana . CONSERVATION STATUS. — Epomops buettikoferi is listed as “Least Concern” on the IUCN Red List.