Lesser Short-tailed Gerbil

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Lesser Short-tailed Gerbil
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Superfamily: Muroidea
Family: Muridae
Subfamily: Gerbillinae
Genus: Dipodillus
Species: D. simoni
Binomial name
Dipodillus simoni
Lataste, 1881

Dipodillus simoni is distributed mainly from eastern Morocco to Egypt. It is known as Simon's dipodil or the lesser short-tailed gerbil.

[edit] References

  • Aulagnier & Granjon (2004). Gerbillus simoni. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 11 May 2006. Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is of least concern
  • 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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