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Forest Giant Squirrels
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Forest Giant Squirrels

Protoxerus

African giant squirrels (genus Protoxerus) form a taxon of squirrels under the subfamily Xerinae. They are only found in Africa.

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2 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 2 known species

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 46200.