Nigerian gerbil

Nigerian gerbil
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Superfamily: Muroidea
Family: Muridae
Subfamily: Gerbillinae
Genus: Gerbillus
Species: G. nigeriae
Binomial name
Gerbillus nigeriae
Thomas & Hinton, 1920

The Nigerian gerbil, Gerbillus nigeriae, is distributed mainly in northern Nigeria and Burkina Faso.

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