IRMNG - Xerus Ehrenberg, 1833

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Xerus Ehrenberg, 1833

IRMNG_ID

1435741 (urn:lsid:irmng.org:taxname:1435741)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Sciuridae Gray, 1821

Synonymised names

Euxerus Thomas, 1909 · unaccepted

Geosciurus Smith, 1834 · unaccepted

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Species Xerus erythropus (Desmarest, 1817)
Species Xerus inauris (Zimmermann, 1780)
Species Xerus inaurus
Species Xerus princeps (Thomas, 1929)
Species Xerus rutilus (Cretzschmar, 1828)

Environment

~~marine~~, ~~brackish~~

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Original description

Sym. Phys., Mamm., 1, sign. ee. [details]

Descriptive notes

Taxonomic remark Authority cited elsewhere as Hemprich & Ehrenberg, 1832. Includes Euxerus, Geosciurus, and Xerus as subgenera (Wilson &...

Taxonomic remark Authority cited elsewhere as Hemprich & Ehrenberg, 1832. Includes Euxerus, Geosciurus, and Xerus as subgenera (Wilson & Reeder, 2005). [details]

Taxonomic citation

IRMNG (2024). Xerus Ehrenberg, 1833. Accessed at: https://www.irmng.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1435741 on 2024-04-19

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2006-09-20 22:00:00Z

created

Rees, Tony

2011-12-31 23:00:00Z

changed

Rees, Tony

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Sources (10)
Notes (2)

original description Sym. Phys., Mamm., 1, sign. ee. [details]

basis of record Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library]. , available online at http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus/ [details]

basis of record SN2000/McKenna & Bell, 1997 [details]

verified source for family Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. (editors). (2005). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd Ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. 2,142 pp. [details]

name verified source Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library]. , available online at http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus/ [details]

current name source Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. (editors). (2005). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd Ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. 2,142 pp. [details]

extant flag source SN2000/McKenna & Bell, 1997, PaleoDB [details]

habitat flag source as per family [details]

original description (of Geosciurus Smith, 1834) S. African quart. J., 2 (2)
page(s): 128 [details]

original description (of Euxerus Thomas, 1909) Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (8) 3
page(s): 473 [details]

From other sources

Taxonomic remark Authority cited elsewhere as Hemprich & Ehrenberg, 1832. Includes Euxerus, Geosciurus, and Xerus as subgenera (Wilson & Reeder, 2005). [details]

Type species as cited Sciurus (Xerus) brachyotus Hemprich and Ehrenberg, 1832 (= Sciurus rutilus Cretzchmar, 1828). [details]