Somalian Gerbil

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Somalian gerbil
Conservation status
Data Deficient (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Rodentia Superfamily: Muroidea Family: Muridae Subfamily: Gerbillinae Genus: Dipodillus Species: D. somalicus
Binomial name
Dipodillus somalicus (Thomas, 1910)

The Somalian gerbil, Dipodillus somalicus, is distributed mainly in Somalia.

[edit] References

• 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.
• Schlitter & Granjon (2004). Gerbillus somalicus. 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