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GENUS Desmodillus

Author:Thomas and Schwann, 1904.
Citation:Abstr. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1904(2): 6.
Type Species:Gerbillus auricularis Smith, 1834.
Comments:Tribe Taterillini, Subtribe Gerbillurina. A Southern African endemic represented by fossils through the Holocene to early Pliocene (Langebaanweg) of South Africa (Avery, 1998; Denys, 1999) and the Pleistocene of Namibia (Senut et al., 1992).
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SPECIES auricularis

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