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Slender-tailed squirrel
Conservation status
Near Threatened  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Sciuridae
Genus:	Protoxerus
Species:	P. aubinnii
Binomial name
Protoxerus aubinnii (J. E. Gray, 1873)
Subspecies
P. a. aubinnii P. a. salae

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

1. 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.
2. 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.

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