Xerini

Xerini Temporal range: Early Oligocene - Recent
Xerus rutilus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Sciuridae
Subfamily:	Xerinae
Tribe:	Xerini Osborn, 1910
Genera
†Heteroxerus Atlantoxerus †Aragoxerus Xerus Spermophilopsis

Xerini is a tribe of ground squirrels occurring in Africa and Asia. With the tribes Marmotini (Holarctic ground squirrels) and Protoxerini (African tree squirrels), they form the subfamily Xerinae. There are three living genera—Xerus, the African ground squirrels; Atlantoxerus, containing the living Barbary ground squirrel of North Africa and some extinct species; and Spermophilopsis, containing the long-clawed ground squirrel of Central Asia.

Species

Tribe Xerini

• Genus Atlantoxerus
  • Barbary Ground Squirrel, Atlantoxerus getulus
• Genus Xerus
  • Subgenus Euxerus
    • Striped Ground Squirrel, Xerus erythropus
  • Subgenus Geosciurus
    • Cape Ground Squirrel, Xerus inauris
    • Mountain Ground Squirrel, Xerus princeps
  • Subgenus Xerus
    • Unstriped Ground Squirrel, Xerus rutilus
• Genus Spermophilopsis
  • Long-clawed Ground Squirrel, Spermophilopsis leptodactylus

References

• Thorington, R.W., Jr. and Hoffmann, R.S. 2005. Family Sciuridae. Pp. 754–818 in Wilson, D.E. and Reeder, D.M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: a taxonomic and geographic reference. 3rd ed. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2 vols., 2142 pp. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0