| Cushioned gerbil | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Superfamily: | Muroidea |
| Family: | Muridae |
| Subfamily: | Gerbillinae |
| Genus: | Gerbillus |
| Species: | G. pulvinatus |
| Binomial name | |
| Gerbillus pulvinatus Rhoads, 1896 |
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| Synonyms | |
|
bilensis Frick, 1914 |
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The cushioned gerbil, Gerbillus pulvinatus, is distributed mainly in Somalia, Ethiopia, Djibouti and Kenya. IUCN lists the junior synonym Gerbillus bilensis as critically endangered.