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--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Muridae
--> SUBFAMILY Gerbillinae
GENUS Sekeetamys
| Author: | Ellerman, 1947. | | Citation: | Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1947-1948(117): 271. | | Type Species: | Gerbillus calurus Thomas, 1892. | | Comments: | Tribe Gerbillini, Subtribe Rombomyina. Reviewed by Corbet (1978c), who also discussed the past allocation of calurus to either Meriones or Gerbillus. Based primarily upon morphology, Pavlinov et al. (1990), thought Sekeetamys was most closely related to Meriones and Brachiones, but Tong (1989) aligned it with Microdillus and Gerbillus. One of four gerbil genera in which electrophoretic, chromosomal, and morphological traits were examined to assess rates of evolutionary change (Qumsiyeh and Chesser, 1988). |
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| Offspring: SPECIES calurus | Synonyms: |
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