Euxerus Thomas, 1909

Kryštufek, Boris, Mahmoudi, Ahmad, Tesakov, Alexey S., Matějů, Jan & Hutterer, Rainer, 2016, A review of bristly ground squirrels Xerini and a generic revision in the African genus Xerus, Mammalia (Warsaw, Poland) 80 (5), pp. 521-540 : 533

Genus Euxerus Thomas : Striped ground squirrels

Euxerus Thomas, 1909, p. 473 . Type species is Sciurus erythropus E. Geoffroy.

Tenotis Rafinesque 1817, p. 362 . Type species is Tenotis griseus Rafinesque. Tenotis griseus is listed in Palmer (1904: 668) and Kretzoi and Kretzoi (2000: 403) but ignored in other nomenclatural sources. Rafinesque proposed T. griseus under “ Sciurus erithopus . Geoffr.” (a misprint for erythopus) and defined Tenotis as “contain[ing] all the squirrels with pouches [...] who live under ground”; as such Tenotis does not match Xerini which lack internal pouches. Locality for T. griseus is not known and we propose the name Tenotis as not identifiable ( nomen dubium).

Content. – A monotypic genus, containing only E. erythropus .