Xerinae

Taxobox
name = Xerinae


image_width = 240px
image_caption = South African Ground Squirrel ("Xerus inauris")
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
familia = Sciuridae
subfamilia = Xerinae
subfamilia_authority = Osborn, 1910
subdivision_ranks = Tribes & Genera
subdivision =
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.

References

*Thorington, R. W. and R. S. Hoffmann. 2005. Family Sciuridae. Pp 754-818 in Mammal Species of the World A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.