Protoxerus Forsyth Major, 1893

Denys, Christiane, Missoup, Alain Didier, Nicolas, Violaine, Sylla, Morlaye, Douno, Mory, Kadjo, Blaise, Lalis, Aude & Monadjem, Ara, 2025, Annotated checklist of rodents from a biodiversity hotspot, Mount Nimba (West Africa), Zoosystema 47 (27), pp. 617-689 : 655

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scientific name	Protoxerus Forsyth Major, 1893
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Genus Protoxerus Forsyth Major, 1893 View in CoL

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This largest African squirrel occurs in rainforest from Sierra Leone to Kenya. It is an arboreal species. In a molecular phylogeny of the Sciuridae , Protoxerus is sister to a clade including Paraxerus and Funisciurus ( Steppan et al. 2004) , however, neither Allosciurus nor Epixerus were included in that phylogeny. One species is recognized in the genus, which requires further taxonomic revision.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Mammalia
Order	Rodentia
Family	Sciuridae
SubFamily	Sciurinae

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