Slender-tailed squirrel

{{Short description|Species of rodent}}

{{Speciesbox

| name = Slender-tailed squirrel

| image =

| status = NT

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Decher, J. |author2=Koprowski, J. |date=2020 |title=Protoxerus aubinnii |volume=2020 |page=e.T18385A166611974 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-1.RLTS.T18385A166611974.en |access-date=11 November 2021}}

| genus = Protoxerus

| species = aubinnii

| authority = (J. E. Gray, 1873)

| subdivision_ranks = Subspecies

| subdivision_ref = {{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}}

| 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.