Xerus inauris

Familia: Sciuridae
Subfamilia: Xerinae
Tribus: Xerini
Genus: Xerus
Species: Xerus inauris

Xerus inauris (Zimmermann, 1780)

Type locality: South Africa, Kaffirland, 100 mi. (160 km) N of Cape of Good Hope. "Bewohnt die Cafferen, über hundert Meilen nordwärts des Vorgebürges der guten Hofnung...".

• Sciurus inauris Zimmermann, 1780
• Sciurus dschinschicus Gmelin, 1788
• Sciurus capensis Kerr, 1792
• Sciurus namaquensis Lichtenstein, 1793
• Sciurus ginginianus Shaw, 1801
• Myoxus africanus Shaw, 1801
• Sciurus albovittatus Desmarest, 1817
• Sciurus levaillantii Kuhl, 1820
• Sciurus setosus Smuts, 1832
• Geosciurus inauris: G. M. Allen, 1939
• Xerus inauris: Ellerman, et al., 1940

• Zimmermann, E. A. W. 1780. Geographische geschichte des menchen, und der allgemein verbreiten vierfeussigen thiere: nebst einer hieher geheorigen zoologischen weltcharte. In der Weygandschen Buchhandlung, Lepzig, 2: 344.
• Gmelin, J. F. 1788. Revision of ‘‘Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differenetiis synonymis, locis’’ by C. Linnaeus. G. E. Beir, Lipsiae, Germany.
• Kerr, R. 1792. The animal kingdom, or zoological system, of the celebrated Sir Charles Linnaeus. Class I. Mammalia: containing a complete systematic description, arrangement, and nomenclature of all known species and varieties of Mammalia, or animals which give suck to their young, being a translation of that part of the Systema Naturae, as lately published, with great improvements, by Professor Gmelin of Goettingen. Together with numerous additions from more recent zoological writers and illustrated with copperplates. A. Strahan, T. Cadell, and W. Creech, Edinburgh, Scotland.
• Lichtenstein, A. 1793. Lichtenstein’s catalogus rerum naturalium rarissimarum (F. D. Godman, ed.). Willughby Society, London, England.
• Shaw, G. 1801. General zoology or systematic natural history. Volume 2, part 1. G. Kearsley, London, England.
• Desmarest, A. G. 1817. Ecureuil, Sciurus, Linn., Bris., Cuv., Geof. Ill., etc. Nouveau dictionnaire d’histoire naturelle, appliqueé aux arts, à l’agriculture, á l’économie rurale et domestique, á la medicine, etc. Par une société de naturalists et ’agriculteurs. Nouvelle edition presqu’ entièrement refondue et considérablement angmentée. Volume 10. Chez Déterville, Paris, France.
• Kuhl, H. 1820. Beitrage zür zoologie und vergleichenden anatomie, von Heinrich Kuhl, mit abbildungen, gezeichnet vom verfasser. Hermann, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
• Smuts, J. 1832. Enumerationem mammalium capensium. J. C. Cyfveer, Leidae, The Netherlands.
• Allen, G. M. 1939. A checklist of African mammals. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 83: 33.
• Ellerman, J. R., R. W. Hayman, and G. W. Holt, 1940. The families and genera of living rodents. Order of the Trustees of the British Museum, London, England.
• Skurski D. A., and J. M. Waterman, 2005. Xerus inauris. Mammalian Species, 781: 1–4.

• Xerus inauris in Mammal Species of the World.
  Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn M. (Editors) 2005. Mammal Species of the World – A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Third edition. ISBN 0-8018-8221-4.
• IUCN: Xerus inauris (Zimmermann, 1780) (Least Concern)
• Xerus inauris (Zimmermann, 1780) – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).

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