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GBIF·2437391speciesAnimalia115 occurrence records
  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classMammalia
  4. ›orderRodentia
  5. ›familySciuridae
  6. ›genusProtoxerus
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IUCN NT · Near threatened

Slender-tailed Squirrel

Protoxerus aubinnii (Gray, 1873)

Also calledAubinneekhoorn (nld) · Schlankschwanzhörnchen (deu) · Smalhaleekorn (nob) · guineaniso-orava (fin) · olejówka wąskoogonowa (pol) · veverka černoocasá (ces) · Écureuil d’Aubinn (fra) · Тонкохвостая белка (rus) · クロオアブラヤシリス (jpn)

First described in: Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 4 vol.12 p.65

Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF

activity

Activity patterns. There is no specific information available for this species, but the Zanj Sun Squirrel is considered diurnal and arboreal.

Sciuridae

biology_ecology

Habitat. Lower canopy and dense shrub-level vegetation of lowland tropical moist forests, including raffia palm (Raphia, Arecaceae) swamps.

Sciuridae

biology_ecology

Movements, Home range and Social organization. There is no information available for this species.

Sciuridae

breeding

Breeding. There is no information available for this species.

Sciuridae

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Where it has been recorded

Recorded sightings

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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.

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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2437391.