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--> FAMILY Muridae
--> SUBFAMILY Gerbillinae
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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