Lataste's gerbil

Hairy-footed gerbil
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Superfamily: Muroidea
Family: Muridae
Subfamily: Gerbillinae
Genus: Gerbillus
Species: G. latastei
Binomial name
Gerbillus latastei
Thomas and Troussart, 1903

Lataste's gerbil, Gerbillus latastei, is distributed mainly in Tunisia, Libya, and possibly Algeria. It is also known as the hairy-footed gerbil.

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