Xerus Hemprich and Ehrenberg 1833
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Xerus Hemprich and Ehrenberg 1833 View in CoL
Xerus Hemprich and Ehrenberg 1833 View in CoL , Symb. Phys. Mamm., Vol. 1: sig. Ee, pl. 9.
Type Species: Sciurus (Xerus) brachyotus Hemprich and Ehrenberg 1832
Species and subspecies: 4 species with 14 subspecies in 3 subgenera:
Subgenus Xerus (Xerus) Hemprich and Ehrenberg 1833
Subgenus Xerus (Euxerus) Thomas 1909
Subgenus Xerus (Geosciurus) Smith 1834
Species Xerus (Euxerus) erythropus (E. Geoffroy 1803)
Subspecies Xerus (Euxerus) erythropus subsp. erythropus E. Geoffroy 1803
Subspecies Xerus (Euxerus) erythropus subsp. chadensis Thomas 1905
Subspecies Xerus (Euxerus) erythropus subsp. lacustris Thomas 1905
Subspecies Xerus (Euxerus) erythropus subsp. leucoumbrinus Rüppell 1835
Subspecies Xerus (Euxerus) erythropus subsp. limitaneus Thomas and Hinton 1923
Subspecies Xerus (Euxerus) erythropus subsp. microdon Thomas 1905
Species Xerus (Geosciurus) inauris (Zimmermann 1780)
Species Xerus (Geosciurus) princeps Thomas 1929
Species Xerus (Xerus) rutilus (Cretzschmar 1828)
Subspecies Xerus (Xerus) rutilus subsp. rutilus Cretzschmar 1828
Subspecies Xerus (Xerus) rutilus subsp. dabagala Heuglin 1861
Subspecies Xerus (Xerus) rutilus subsp. dorsalis Dollman 1911
Subspecies Xerus (Xerus) rutilus subsp. intensus Thomas 1904
Subspecies Xerus (Xerus) rutilus subsp. massaicus Toschi 1945
Subspecies Xerus (Xerus) rutilus subsp. rufifrons Dollman 1911
Subspecies Xerus (Xerus) rutilus subsp. saturatus Neumann 1900
Subspecies Xerus (Xerus) rutilus subsp. stephanicus Thomas 1906
Discussion: Tribe Xerini according to Simpson (1945:79). Includes Euxerus, Geosciurus , and Xerus as subgenera ( Amtmann, 1975; Ellerman, 1940; Moore, 1959).
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.
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.
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.
Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, E. 1803. Catalogue des mammiferes du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle. Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, 272 pp.
Hinton, M. A. C. 1923. On the voles collected by Mr. G. Forrest in Yunnan; with remarks upon the genera Eothenomys and Neodon and upon their allies. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 9, 11: 145 - 162.
Moore, J. C. 1959. Relationships among the living squirrels of the Sciurinae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 118 (4): 157 - 206.
Simpson, G. G. 1945. The principles of classification and a classification of mammals. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 85: 1 - 350.
Thomas, O. 1929. The mammals of Senor Budin's Patagonian expedition. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 10, 4: 35 - 45.
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