Geosciurus Smith

Kryštufek, Boris, Mahmoudi, Ahmad, Tesakov, Alexey S., Matějů, Jan & Hutterer, Rainer, 2016, A review of bristly ground squirrels Xerini and a generic revision in the African genus Xerus, Mammalia (Warsaw, Poland) 80 (5), pp. 521-540 : 533-534

Genus Geosciurus Smith : South African ground squirrels

Geosciurus Smith 1834, p. 128 . Type species is “ X. capensis ” (synonym of Sciurus inauris Zimmermann ), subsequently designated by Thomas (1897, p. 933).

Content. – Geosciurus contains two species which differ morphologically ( de Graaff 1981, Herzig-Straschil et al. 1991) and in nucleotide sequences ( Herron et al. 2005).