Forest giant squirrel

Forest giant squirrel
	South Nandi Forest, Kenya
Conservation status
	; Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Sciuridae
Genus:	Protoxerus
Species:	P. stangeri
Binomial name
	Protoxerus stangeri; (Waterhouse, 1842)
Subspecies
	P. s. stangeri; P. s. bea; P. s. centricola; P. s. cooperi; P. s. eborivorus; P. s. kabobo; P. s. kwango; P. s. loandae; P. s. nigeriae; P. s. personatus; P. s. signatus; P. s. temminckii;

The forest giant squirrel (Protoxerus stangeri) or Stanger's squirrel is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae found in Angola, Benin, Burundi, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Togo, and Uganda. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and plantations.

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.