Przewalski's Gerbil

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Przewalski's Gerbil
Fossil range: Recent
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Muridae
Subfamily: Gerbillinae
Tribe: Gerbillini
Subtribe: Rhombomyina
Genus: Brachiones
Thomas, 1925
Species: B. przewalskii
Binomial name
Brachiones przewalskii
(Büchner, 1889)

Przewalski's Gerbil (Brachiones przewalskii) is a species of rodent in the Muridae family. It is the only species in the genus Brachiones. It is found only in China.

[edit] References

  • Baillie, J. 1996. Brachiones przewalskii. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 19 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.
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