HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Muridae
--> SUBFAMILY Gerbillinae
--> GENUS Gerbillus
--> SUBGENUS Gerbillus
SPECIES Gerbillus (Gerbillus) occiduus
Author: | Lay, 1975. | Citation: | Fieldiana Zool., 65: 94. | Common Name: | Occidental Gerbil | Type Locality: | Morocco, Aoreora, 80 km WSW Goulimine. | Distribution: | Coastal Morocco from south of Anti Atlas to Tarfaya (Aulagnier, in litt.; also see Aulagnier and Thevenot, 1986). | Status: | IUCN – Critically Endangered. | Comments: | Subgenus Gerbillus. Lay (1983) noted that the karyotype of this Moroccan endemic was distinct from that of G. andersoni, and provided detailed morphological and chromosomal contrasts between G. occiduus and Moroccan G. hoogstraali and G. hesperinus. Pavlinov et al. (1990) included occiduus in G. pyramidum. Reviewed by Aulagnier and Thevenot (1986). |
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