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Striped Ground Squirrel
Xerus erythropus (É.Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1803)
First described in: In Cat. Mamm. Mus. Hist. Nat., Paris p.178
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
child_taxa
Subspecies:: Subspecies Xerus (Euxerus) erythropus subsp. erythropus E. Geoffroy 1803 Subspecies Xerus (Euxerus) erythropus subsp. chadensis Thomas 1905 Subspecies Xerus (Euxerus) erythropus subsp. lacustris Thomas 1905 Subspecies Xerus (Euxerus) erythropus subsp. leucoumbrinus Rüppell 1835 Subspecies Xerus (Euxerus) erythropus subsp. limitaneus Thomas and Hinton 1923 Subspecies Xerus (Euxerus) erythropus subsp. microdon Thomas 1905
Order Rodentia - Family Sciuridae
discussion
Discussion: Placed in Euxerus which is considered a subgenus of Xerus by Ellerman (1940), Moore (1959), and Amtmann (1975). The spelling erythopus was used by E. Geoffroy, 1803; Shinz, 1845, used the spelling erythropus. Opinion 945 of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (1971 b) ruled that erythopus Geoffroy, 1803 be changed to erythropus as an incorrect original spelling; the proper latin root is " erythro ", and in the last 100 years nearly all authors have used the spelling erythropus. In the interest of orthographic stability we advocate that the specific name be spelled erythropus. It is not desirable to perpetuate the lapsus in spelling by early workers.
Order Rodentia - Family Sciuridae
distribution
Distribution: SE Morocco, S Mauritania, Senegal, Gambia, Guinea Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Côte d’Ivoire, S Mali, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Benin, SE Niger, NE Nigeria, Cameroon, NE Republic of Congo, SE Chad, NE Central African Republic, Sudan, Dem. Rep. Congo, NW Uganda, Rwanda, W Ethiopia, W Kenya, N Tanzania.
Order Rodentia - Family Sciuridae
materials_examined
Type Locality: Senegal (neotype). Origin of original type unknown. " Inconnue. ".
Order Rodentia - Family Sciuridae
Where it has been recorded
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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 8950740.