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| African giant squirrel | |
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| Forest giant squirrel (Protoxerus stangeri) | |
Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Sciuridae |
| Tribe: | Protoxerini |
| Genus: | Protoxerus Forsyth Major, 1893 |
| Type species | |
| Sciurus stangeri Waterhouse, 1842 | |
| Species[1] | |
African giant squirrels (genusProtoxerus) form a taxon ofsquirrels under thesubfamilyXerinae. They are only found inAfrica.
The two subgenera of African giant squirrels each has a single species:[1]
