The Nature LibraryEN·ES
iNat·871611SpeciesMammalia690 field observations
  1. Animals
  2. ›Chordates
  3. ›Vertebrates
  4. ›Mammals
  5. ›Therians
  6. ›Placental Mammals
  7. ›Primates, Rodents, and Allies
  8. ›Rodents
  9. ›Squirrels, Dormice, and Mountain Beavers
  10. ›Squirrels
  11. ›Ground and African Tree Squirrels
  12. ›African Ground Squirrels
  13. ›Euxerus
Striped Ground Squirrel
Plate 1 of 10. (c) Allan Hopkins, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND) · via iNaturalist

Striped Ground Squirrel

Euxerus erythropus

The striped ground squirrel (Euxerus erythropus) is a species of squirrel native to Africa. It was first described by Geoffroy in 1803, but the binomial authority is sometimes incorrectly cited as "Desmarest, 1817". There are six subspecies. It is a moderately large ground squirrel with sandy-brown or dark-brown fur with a white lateral stripe and whitish underparts. Adults live alone or in pairs in a simple burrow with a central nest, foraging, mostly on the ground,...

Continue reading on Wikipedia
§·

Listen

Looking for field recordings…

§·

Where it lives

Recorded sightings

—

geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.

Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.

§·

In the old herbals & bestiaries

§·

In the stacks

Searching the stacks…

Every page naming Euxerus erythropus in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →

This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 871611.