Xerinae
South African Ground Squirrel (Xerus inauris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Sciuridae
Subfamily:	Xerinae Osborn, 1910
Tribes & Genera
Xerini Atlantoxerus Spermophilopsis Xerus Protoxerini Epixerus Funisciurus Heliosciurus Myosciurus Paraxerus Protoxerus Marmotini Ammospermophilus Cynomys Marmota Sciurotamias Spermophilus Tamias

Xerinae is a subfamily of squirrels, many of which are highly terrestrial.

[edit] 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.

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