Xerus rutilus (Cretzschmar, 1828)
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Xerus rutilus (Cretzschmar, 1828) View in CoL . In Rüppell, Atlas Reise Nordl. Afr., Zool. Säugeth., p. 59.
TYPE LOCALITY: Ethiopia, eastern slope of Abyssynia. "Der östliche Abhang Abyssiniens, wo es häufig vorkommmt." Probably Massawa, according to Mertens (1925:26) " ... wahrsheinlich Massaua" .
DISTRIBUTION: SE Sudan, E and S Ethiopia, Djibouti, Somalia, Kenya, NE Uganda, NE Tanzania.
SYNONYMS: abessinicus (Gmelin, 1788); brachyotis (Hemprich and Ehrenberg, 1833) ; dabagala Heuglin, 1861; dorsalis Dollman, 1911 ; fuscus (Huet, 1880); intensus Thomas, 1904; massaicus Toschi, 1945; rufifrons Dollman, 1911; saturatus (Neumann, 1900) ; stephanicus Thomas, 1906.
COMMENTS: Subgenus Xerus . Chromosomes described by Nadler and Hoffmann (1974). Reviewed by O'Shea (1991, Mammalian Species, 370).
Dollman, G. 1911. On Arvicanthis abyssinicus and allied East-African species, with descriptions of four new forms. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 8, 8: 334 - 353.
Mertens, R. 1925. Verzeichnis der Saugetier-Typen des Senckenbergischen Museums. Senckenbergiana Biologica, 7: 18 - 37.
Nadler, C. F., and R. S. Hoffmann. 1974. Chromosomes of the African ground squirrel, Xerus rutilus. Experientia, 30: 889 - 890.
O'Shea, T. J. 1991. Xerus rutilus. Mammalian Species, 370: 1 - 5.
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