Botta's Gerbil

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Botta's gerbil
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Superfamily: Muroidea
Family: Muridae
Subfamily: Gerbillinae
Genus: Dipodillus
Species: D. bottai
Binomial name
Dipodillus bottai
(Lataste, 1882)

Botta's gerbil, Dipodillus bottai is distributed mainly in Sudan and Kenya.

[edit] References

  • Granjon (2004). Gerbillus bottai. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 12 May 2006. Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is listed as data deficient
  • Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. Pp. 894-1531 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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