Cushioned Gerbil

Cushioned gerbil
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
Synonyms

bilensis Frick, 1914

The cushioned gerbil, Gerbillus pulvinatus, is distributed mainly in Somalia, Ethiopia, Djibouti and Kenya. IUCN lists the junior synonym Gerbillus bilensis as critically endangered.

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