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The unstriped ground squirrel (Xerus rutilus) is a species of rodent (order Rodentia) in the family Sciuridae. It is the only member of the genus Xerus. It is found in Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda. Its natural habitats are dry savanna and subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.
One of which was Africa, where they traveled via land bridges in the Miocene period, leading to the emergence of Protoxerini and Xerini ground squirrel tribes. Many Xerinae also dispersed to North America during the early Oligocene era, and with the help of global cooling and the expansion of grasslands, resulted in the emergence of the ...
There are five living genera—Xerus, the unstriped ground squirrel; Euxerus, the striped ground squirrel; Geosciurus, the Cape and mountain ground squirrels; Atlantoxerus, containing the living Barbary ground squirrel of North Africa and some extinct species; and Spermophilopsis, containing the long-clawed ground squirrel of Central Asia.
Squirrels are generally small animals, ranging in size from the African pygmy squirrel and least pygmy squirrel at 10–14 cm (3.9–5.5 in) in total length and just 12–26 g (0.42–0.92 oz) in weight, [8] [9] to the Bhutan giant flying squirrel at up to 1.27 m (4 ft 2 in) in total length, [10] and several marmot species, which can weigh 8 kg ...
The striped ground squirrel (Euxerus erythropus) is a species of squirrel native to Africa. It was first described by Geoffroy in 1803, [1] [4] but the binomial authority is sometimes incorrectly [5] cited as "Desmarest, 1817". [2] There are six subspecies. It is a moderately large ground squirrel with sandy-brown or dark-brown fur with a white ...
The African bush squirrels are a genus of squirrels, Paraxerus, in the subfamily Xerinae. [1] They are only found in Africa. The 11 species in this genus are: Alexander's bush squirrel (P. alexandri) Boehm's bush squirrel (P. boehmi) Smith's bush squirrel (P. cepapi) Cooper's mountain squirrel (P. cooperi) Striped bush squirrel (P. flavovittis)
The long-clawed ground squirrel (Spermophilopsis leptodactylus) is a squirrel species native to grasslands and deserts in northeastern Iran, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, northwestern Afghanistan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. [1] It is the only member of the tribe Xerini not native to Africa.
Sun squirrels (genus Heliosciurus), form a taxon of squirrels under the subfamily Xerinae and the tribe Protoxerini. They are only found in sub-Saharan Africa . Either the habit of basking in the sun on tree branches [ citation needed ] or the tail being commonly used as a sunshade [ 2 ] gave this group its common name.