| Slender-tailed squirrel | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Placentalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Sciuridae |
| Genus: | Protoxerus |
| Species: | P. aubinnii
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| Binomial name | |
| Protoxerus aubinnii (J. E. Gray, 1873)
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| Subspecies2 | |
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The slender-tailed squirrel (Protoxerus aubinnii) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae found in Ivory Coast, Ghana, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
References
References
- Decher, J.; Koprowski, J. (2020). "Protoxerus aubinnii". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020 e.T18385A166611974. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-1.RLTS.T18385A166611974.en. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
- Thorington, R.W. Jr.; Hoffmann, R.S. (2005). "Family Sciuridae". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: a taxonomic and geographic reference (3rd ed.). The Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 754–818. ISBN 0-8018-8221-4. OCLC 26158608.