Xerinae
| Xerinae | |
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South African ground squirrel (Xerus inauris)
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Sciuridae |
| Subfamily: | Xerinae Osborn, 1910 |
| Tribes & genera | |
Marmotini
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The Xerinae comprise a
Holarctic ground squirrels), Xerini (African and some Eurasian ground squirrels), and Protoxerini (African tree squirrels).[1]
Taxonomy
Tribe Xerini six species of ground squirrels in five genera, occurring in Africa and Asia.
- Atlantoxerus
- Euxerus
- Geosciurus
- Spermophilopsis
- Xerus
Tribe Protoxerini thirty species of tree squirrels in six genera, occurring in Africa.
- Epixerus
- Funisciurus
- Heliosciurus
- Myosciurus
- Paraxerus
- Protoxerus
Tribe
chipmunks
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- Ammospermophilus
- Callospermophilus
- Cynomys
- Eutamias
- Ictidomys
- Marmota
- Neotamias
- Notocitellus
- Otospermophilus
- Poliocitellus
- Sciurotamias
- Spermophilus
- Tamias
- Urocitellus
- Xerospermophilus
References
- ^ Thorington, R. W. and R. S. Hoffmann (2005). "Family Sciuridae". pp. 754–818 in Wilson, E. D. and Reeder, D. M. (eds.), Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, Vol. 2. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.