Cape Gerbil

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Cape Gerbil
Conservation status
Least Concern
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Rodentia Family: Muridae Genus: Gerbilliscus Species: G. afra
Binomial name
Gerbilliscus afra (Gray, 1830)

The Cape Gerbil (Gerbilliscus afra) is a species of rodent in the Muridae family. It is found only in South Africa. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry shrubland and temperate desert.

[edit] References

• Coetzee, N. 2004. Tatera afra. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 20 July 2007.
• 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.