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--> SUBFAMILY Gerbillinae
--> GENUS Gerbilliscus
--> SUBGENUS Gerbilliscus
SPECIES Gerbilliscus (Gerbilliscus) boehmi
Author: | Noack, 1887. | Citation: | Zool. Jahrb. Syst., 2: 241. | Common Name: | Boehm’s Gerbil | Type Locality: | Dem. Rep. Congo, Katanga Province, Marungu, Qua Mpala (see Ansell, 1978, and Hill and Carter, 1941, for placement of type locality in S Dem. Rep. Congo; it has also been identified as N Zambia [G. M. Allen, 1939; Bates, 1988]). | Distribution: | E Angola (Crawford-Cabral, 1998, discussed the possible Angolan record), S Dem. Rep. Congo (Hatt, 1940a), N Zambia (Ansell, 1978), Malawi (Ansell and Dowsett, 1988), Tanzania (Swynerton and Hayman, 1951), Kenya (Hollister, 1919), and Uganda (Delany, 1975). | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc) as Tatera boehmi. | Comments: | Subgenus Gerbilliscus. Reviewed by Davis (1975a) and Pavlinov et al. (1990); northeast African population revised by Bates (1988). The double-grooved incisors and fringed, white-tipped tail of G. boehmi are unique among species of Gerbilliscus, and these traits prompted Thomas (1896) to propose Gerbilliscus as a subgenus of Tatera to contain boehmi. |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
fallax (Thomas and Schwann, 1904) fraterculus (Thomas, 1898) varia (Heller, 1910)
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