Tarabul's Gerbil

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Tarabul's gerbil
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Muridae
Subfamily: Gerbillinae
Genus: Gerbillus
Species: G. tarabuli
Binomial name
Gerbillus tarabuli
(Thomas, 1902)
Synonyms

riggenbachi Thomas, 1903

Tarabul's gerbil, Gerbillus tarabuli is distributed from Senegal and Mauritania to Libya and Chad.

[edit] References

  • Aulagnier & Granjon (2004). Gerbillus tarabuli. 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.