Biology:Lesser short-tailed gerbil

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Short description: Species of rodent

Lesser short-tailed gerbil
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Muridae
Genus: Dipodillus
Species:
D. simoni
Binomial name
Dipodillus simoni
Lataste, 1881

The lesser short-tailed gerbil (Dipodillus simoni) is distributed mainly from eastern Morocco to Egypt. It is also known as Simon's dipodil. After morphological and molecular studies in 2010 Dipodillus was ranged as a subgenus of Gerbillus, and Dipodillus simoni was renamed into Gerbillus simoni.[2][3]


References

  1. Granjon, L. (2016). "Gerbillus simoni". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T9149A22462349.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/9149/22462349. Retrieved 14 March 2025. 
  2. Awatef Abiadh; M'barek Chetoui; Taher Lamine-Cheniti; Ernesto Capanna; Paolo Colangelo (August 2010). "Molecular phylogenetics of the genus Gerbillus (Rodentia, Gerbillinae): Implications for systematics, taxonomy and chromosomal evolution". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 56 (2): 513–518. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2010.04.018. PMID 20412863. Bibcode2010MolPE..56..513A. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1055790310001727. Retrieved 12 February 2014. 
  3. Awatef Abiadh; Paolo Colangelo; Ernesto Capanna; Tahar Lamine-Cheniti; M'barek Chetoui (September 2010). "Morphometric analysis of six Gerbillus species (Rodentia, Gerbillinae) from Tunisia". Comptes Rendus Biologies 333 (9): 680–687. doi:10.1016/j.crvi.2010.07.003. PMID 20816648. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/46148011. 

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