Atlantoxerus Forsyth Major, 1893 . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1893:189.

TYPE SPECIES: Sciurus getulus Linnaeus, 1758 .

COMMENTS: Subfamily Xerinae (Gromov et al., 1965:70) or tribe Xerini (Moore, 1959) . Atlantoxerus was originally a subgenus of Xerus, and later raised to full generic rank by Thomas (1909a). Closely related to Xerus (Corbet, 1978c:79) .