Xerus inauris (Zimmermann, 1780)

James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 1), Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA: Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections, pp. 345-382 : 377

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scientific name	Xerus inauris (Zimmermann, 1780)
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Xerus inauris (Zimmermann, 1780) View in CoL . Geogr. Gesch. Mensch. Vierf. Thiere, 2:344.

TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa, Kaffirland, 100 mi. (161 km) N. of Cape of Good Hope .

DISTRIBUTION: South Africa; S. Namibia; Botswana; W. Zimbabwe.

COMMENT: Subgenus Geosciurus ; see Ellerman, 1940:422, and Amtmann, 1975, Part 6.1:2. Moore, 1959, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 118:153-206, considered Geosciurus a distinct genus.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301410002038002001.

Amtmann, E. 1975. Family Sciuridae. Part 6. 1. Pp. 1 - 12, in The mammals of Africa: An identification manual (J. Meester and H. W. Setzer, eds.) [issued 10 Dec 1975]. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C., not continuously paginated.

Ellerman, J. R. 1940. The families and genera of living rodents. Vol. 1. Rodents other than Muridae. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 689 pp.

Moore, J. C. 1959. Relationships among the living squirrels of the Sciurinae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 118 (4): 157 - 206.