Slender-tailed squirrel

Slender-tailed squirrel
Conservation status

Data Deficient  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
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 rodents in the Sciuridae family 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. Retrieved 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.