Lesser short-tailed gerbil
Species of rodent
Lesser short-tailed gerbil | |
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Conservation status | |
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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
- ^ Elsevier; Awatef Abiadh; M'barek Chetoui; Taher Lamine-Cheniti; Ernesto Capanna (2010). "Molecular phylogenetics of the genus Gerbillus (Rodentia, Gerbillinae): Implications for systematics, taxonomy and chromosomal evolution. "Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution". Comptes Rendus Biologies. 56 (2): 513–518. doi:10.1016/j.crvi.2010.07.003. PMID 20816648. Retrieved 12 February 2014.
- Aulagnier & Granjon (2004). "Gerbillus simoni". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2004. Retrieved 11 May 2006.{{cite iucn}}: old-form url (help) 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.
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Extant species of subfamily Gerbillinae
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordate
- Class: Mammalia
- Superorder: Euarchontoglires
- Order: Rodentia
- Family: Muridae
Tribes Ammodillini, Desmodilliscini, Gerbillurini, Taterillini | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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