Slender-tailed Squirrel

Slender-tailed Squirrel
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Sciuridae
Genus: Protoxerus
Subgenus: Allosciurus
Species: P. aubinnii
Binomial name
Protoxerus aubinnii
(Gray, 1873)
Subspecies[2]
  • P. a. aubinnii
  • P. a. salae

The Slender-tailed Squirrel (Protoxerus aubinnii) is a species of rodent in the Sciuridae family. It is found in Ivory Coast, Ghana, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

References

  1. ^ Decher, J. & Grubb, P. (2008). Protoxerus aubinnii. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 6 January 2009.
  2. ^ Thorington, R.W., Jr.; Hoffmann, R.S. (2005). "Family Sciuridae". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. 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. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?s=y&id=12400001.