Xerus rutilus

Xerus rutilus
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Xerus rutilus
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Estado de conservación
Preocupación menor (LC)
Preocupación menor (UICN)[1]
Clasificación científica
Reino: Animalia
Filo: Chordata
Subfilo: Vertebrata
Clase: Mammalia
Infraclase: Placentalia
Superorden: Euarchontoglires
Orden: Rodentia
Familia: Sciuridae
Género: Xerus
Especie: X. rutilus
Nombre binomial
Xerus rutilus
(Cretzschmar, 1828)

Xerus rutilus es una especie de roedor de la familia Sciuridae.

Distribución geográfica

Se encuentran en Djibouti, Eritrea, Etiopía, Kenia, Somalia, Sudán, Tanzania, y Uganda.


Hábitat

Su hábitat natural son: sabanas, matorrales áridos subtropicales o tropicales.

Referencias

  1. ↑ Grubb, P. & Oguge, N. (2008). Xerus rutilus. En: UICN 2008. Lista Roja de Especies Amenazadas UICN. Consultado el 8 Enero 2009.
  • Thorington, R. W. Jr. and R. S. Hoffman. 2005. Family Sciuridae. Pp. 754-818 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.

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