{{Short description|Species of rodent}} {{Speciesbox | name = Slender-tailed squirrel | image = | status = NT | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = <ref name="iucn status 11 November 2021">{{cite iucn |author=Decher, J. |author2=Koprowski, J. |date=2020 |title=''Protoxerus aubinnii'' |volume=2020 |article-number=e.T18385A166611974 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-1.RLTS.T18385A166611974.en |access-date=11 November 2021}}</ref> | genus = Protoxerus | species = aubinnii | authority = (J. E. Gray, 1873) | subdivision_ranks = Subspecies | subdivision_ref = <ref name="Thorington">{{cite book|last1=Thorington|first1=R.W. Jr.|last2=Hoffmann|first2=R.S.|year=2005|pages=754–818|editor1-last=Wilson|editor1-first=D.E.|editor2-last=Reeder|editor2-first=D.M|url=http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3|chapter=Family Sciuridae|chapter-url=https://www.departments.bucknell.edu/biology/resources/msw3/browse.asp?id=12400001|title=Mammal Species of the World: a taxonomic and geographic reference|edition=3rd|publisher=The Johns Hopkins University Press|isbn=0-8018-8221-4|oclc=26158608}}</ref> | subdivision = * ''P. a. aubinnii'' * ''P. a. salae'' | synonyms = }}

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.

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