HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Muridae
--> SUBFAMILY Gerbillinae
--> GENUS Gerbillus
--> SUBGENUS Gerbillus
SPECIES Gerbillus (Gerbillus) perpallidus
Author: | Setzer, 1958. | Citation: | J. Egypt Publ. Health Assoc., 33: 221. | Common Name: | Pale Gerbil | Type Locality: | Egypt, Bir Victoria. | Distribution: | N Egypt, west of the Nile River. | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | Comments: | Subgenus Gerbillus. Treated as a species by most authors except Cockrum (1977) who placed it in G. latastei. See Lay (1983), Osborn and Helmy (1980), and Pavlinov et al. (1990) for reviews of this distinctive species. |
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