Unstriped Ground Squirrel 

Unstriped Ground Squirrel

Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Sciuridae
Genus: Xerus
Subgenus: Xerus
Hemprich & Ehrenberg, 1833
Species: X. rutilus
Binomial name
Xerus rutilus
(Cretzschmar, 1828)

The Unstriped Ground Squirrel (Xerus rutilus) is a species of rodent in the Sciuridae family. It is found in Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda. Its natural habitats are dry savanna and subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.

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