African giant squirrel

Taxobox
name = African Giant Squirrels
fossil_range = Recent
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
familia = Sciuridae
tribus = Protoxerini
genus = "Protoxerus"
genus_authority = Forsyth Major, 1893
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = "Protoxerus aubinnii"
"Protoxerus stangeri"

African Giant Squirrels (genus "Protoxerus") form a taxon of squirrels under the subfamily Sciurinae. They are only found in Africa.

There are two species of African giant squirrels:
*Slender-tailed Squirrel, "Protoxerus aubinnii"
*Forest Giant Squirrel or Stanger's Squirrel, "Protoxerus stangeri"