Slender-tailed squirrel

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.

Slender-tailed squirrel
Conservation status
Near Threatened  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Sciuridae
Genus:	Protoxerus
Species:	P. aubinnii
Binomial name
Protoxerus aubinnii (J. E. Gray, 1873)
Subspecies[2]
P. a. aubinnii P. a. salae