Xerus erythropus
| Striped Ground Squirrel | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Sciuridae |
| Genus: | Xerus |
| Subgenus: | Euxerus Thomas, 1909 |
| Species: | X. erythropus |
| Binomial name | |
| Xerus erythropus Desmarest, 1817 |
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The Striped Ground Squirrel (Xerus erythropus) is a species of rodent in the Sciuridae family. It is found in Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, and Uganda. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, moist savanna, arable land, and plantations .
References
- ^ Grubb, P., Oguge, N. & Ekué, M. R. M. (2008). Xerus erythropus. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 8 January 2009.
- Thorington, R. W. Jr. and R. S. Hoffman. 2005. Family Sciuridae. pp. 754–818 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
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