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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Muridae
--> SUBFAMILY Gerbillinae
--> GENUS Dipodillus
--> SUBGENUS Dipodillus
SPECIES Dipodillus (Dipodillus) zakariai
| Author: | Cockrum, Vaughn, and Vaughn`, 1976. | | Citation: | Mammalia, 40: 320. | | Common Name: | Kerkennah Islands Dipodil | | Type Locality: | N Africa, Tunisia, Kerkennah Isls, 0.5 km E Kellabine, about 42 km east of Sfax, Tunisia. | | Distribution: | Recorded only from the Kerkennah Isls, off the Tunisian coast opposite the coastal city of Sfax. | | Comments: | Subgenus Dipodillus. Lay (1983) included zakariai in D. simoni but provided no reasons for doing so. Pavlinov et al. (1990) recognized it as a species. Cockrum et al. (1976a) provided adequate morphological data to support the hypothesis that zakariai is an insular species related to mainland D. simoni. |
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