Xerus inauris (Zimmermann, 1780)

Robert S. Hoffmann & Charles G. Anderson, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Sciuridae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 419-465 : 458

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Xerus inauris (Zimmermann, 1780) View in CoL . Geogr. Gesch. Mensch. Vierf. Thiere, 2:344.

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... " .

DISTRIBUTION: S Angola, Namibia, Botswana, W Zimbabwe, South Africa.

SYNONYMS: africanus (Shaw, 1801); capensis ( Kerr, 1792); dschinshicus (Gmelin, 1788); ginginianus (Shaw, 1801); levaillantii (Kuhl, 1820); namaquensis (Lichtenstein, 1793); setosus (Smuts, 1832) .

COMMENTS: Subgenus Geosciurus . Distinction from X. princeps supported by minor chromosomal differences reported by Robinson et al. (1986).

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Mammalia
Order	Rodentia
Family	Sciuridae
Genus	Xerus