Xerus

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Etymology

New Latin, coined by German physician and naturalist Philipp Jakob Cretzschmar (1833), apparently from Ancient Greek ξηρός (xērós, “dry”), perhaps in reference to its rough fur or the nature of the dry grasslands they live in.

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Xerus m

  1. A taxonomic genus within the family Sciuridae – unstriped ground squirrels.

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