Biology:Lesser short-tailed gerbil

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Short description: Species of rodent

Lesser short-tailed gerbil
Gerbillus simoni.jpg
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
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.[1]

References

  • Aulagnier; Granjon (2004). "Gerbillus simoni". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2004. https://www.iucnredlist.org/details/9149/0. Retrieved 11 May 2006.  Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is of least concern
  • Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. pp. 894–1531 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.

Wikidata ☰ Q307860 entry