Xerus erythropus Desmarest 1817
Creators: name: Hoffmann, Robert S.
name: Anderson, Charles G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Sciuridae
Xerus
Xerus erythropus

description: <i>Xerus erythropus</i> Desmarest, 1817. <i>In</i> Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat., Nouv. ed., 10:110. TYPE LOCALITY: Senegal (neotype). Origin of original type unknown. "Inconnue." DISTRIBUTION: SE Morocco, S Mauritania, Senegal, Gambia, Guinea Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, S Mali, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Benin, SE Niger, NE Nigeria, Cameroon, NE Congo, SE Chad, NE Central African Republic, Sudan, Zaire, NW Uganda, Rwanda, W Ethiopia, W Kenya, N Tanzania. SYNONYMS: <i>agadius</i> (Thomas and Hinton, 1921); <i>albovittatus</i> (Desmarest, 1817); <i>chadensis</i> (Thomas, <i>1905); fulvior</i> (Thomas, 1905); <i>lacustris</i> (Thomas, 1905); <i>lessonii</i> (Fitzinger, 1867, new name for <i>marabutus</i> Lesson); <i>leucoumbrinus</i> (Riippell, 1835); <i>limitaneus</i> (Thomas and Hinton, 1923); <i>maestus</i> (Thomas, 1910); <i>marabutus</i> (Lesson, 1838); <i>microdon</i> Thomas, 1905; <i>prestigiator</i> (Lesson, 1838). COMMENTS: Placed in <i>Euxerus</i> which is considered a subgenus of <i>Xerus</i> by Ellerman (1940), Moore (1959), and Amtmann (1975). The name <i>erythopus</i> or <i>erythropus</i> is commonly attributed to E. Geoffroy, 1803. Cat. Mamm. Mus. Hist. Nat., Paris, p. 178, who gave the name as <i>erythopus;</i> however, this work was never published and is therefore unavailable (see Appendix I). The next available use of the name <i>erythopus</i> was by Desmarest, 1817. Shinz, 1845, used the spelling <i>erythropus.</i> Opinion 945 of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (1971) ruled that <i>erythopus</i> Geoffroy, 1803 be changed to <i>erythropus</i> as an incorrect original spelling. The proper latin root is "erythro". In the last 100 years nearly all authors have used the spelling <i>erythropus.</i> In the interest of orthographic stability we advocate that the specific name be spelled <i>erythropus.</i> It is not desirable to perpetuate the lapsus in spelling by early workers.
description: Published as part of <i>Robert S. Hoffmann &amp; Charles G. Anderson, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Sciuridae, pp. 419-465 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press</i> on page 458, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353130
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