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GENUS Xerus

Author:Hemprich and Ehrenberg, 1833.
Citation:Symb. Phys. Mamm., 1: sig. Ee, pl. 9.
Type Species:Sciurus (Xerus) brachyotus Hemprich and Ehrenberg, 1832 (= Sciurus rutilus Cretzchmar, 1828).
Comments:Tribe Xerini according to Simpson (1945:79). Includes Euxerus, Geosciurus, and Xerus as subgenera (Amtmann, 1975; Ellerman, 1940; Moore, 1959).
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SUBGENUS Xerus

SPECIES rutilus

SUBSPECIES rutilus

SUBSPECIES dabagala

SUBSPECIES dorsalis

SUBSPECIES intensus

SUBSPECIES massaicus

SUBSPECIES rufifrons

SUBSPECIES saturatus

SUBSPECIES stephanicus

SUBGENUS Euxerus

SPECIES erythropus

SUBSPECIES erythropus

SUBSPECIES chadensis

SUBSPECIES lacustris

SUBSPECIES leucoumbrinus

SUBSPECIES limitaneus

SUBSPECIES microdon

SUBGENUS Geosciurus

SPECIES inauris

SPECIES princeps

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