Xerus inauris

Sciurus inauris Zimmermann, 1780:344. Type locality ‘‘Bewohnt die Cafferen, über hundert Meilen nordwärts des Vorgebürges der guten Hofnung . . . ’’ translated, ‘‘Kaffirland, 100 miles north of the Cape of Good Hope.’’ Sciurus dschinschicus Gmelin, 1788:151. Type locality ‘‘In Provincia Indiae Dschinschi’’ 5 South Africa. Sciurus capensis Kerr, 1792:266. Type locality ‘‘near mountains of the Sneeberg, eight hundred miles north from the Cape of Good Hope.’’ Sciurus namaquensis Lichtenstein, 1793:2. No type locality given. Restricted to ‘‘Orange River, Namaqualand’’ by Ellerman (1940). Sciurus ginginianus Shaw, 1801:147. Type locality ‘‘Gingi in the East Indies’’ 5 South Africa. Myoxus africanus Shaw, 1801:172. Type locality ‘‘mountains of Sneeburgh, about 800 miles above the Cape of Good Hope.’’ Sciurus albovittatus Desmarest, 1817:338. ‘‘Le Cap de Bonne-Espérance’’ 5 Cape of Good Hope. Sciurus levaillantii Kuhl, 1820:67. Type locality ‘‘In Africa meridionali.’’ Sciurus setosus Smuts, 1832:33. Type locality ‘‘Habitat hoc animal in sylvis ac regionibus Coloniae inferioribus’’ 5 southern part of Cape of Good Hope. Geosciurus inauris: G. M. Allen, 1939:293. Name combination. Xerus inauris: Ellerman et al. 1940:422. First use of current name combination.