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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Muridae
--> SUBFAMILY Gerbillinae
--> GENUS Gerbillus
--> SUBGENUS Hendecapleura
SPECIES Gerbillus (Hendecapleura) famulus
| Author: | Yerbury and Thomas, 1895. | | Citation: | Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1895: 551. | | Common Name: | Black-tufted Gerbil | | Type Locality: | South Yemen, Aden, Lehej. | | Distribution: | Endemic to South Yemen and North Yemen (see Harrison and Bates, 1991:272). | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | Subgenus Hendecapleura. A large and elegant gerbil whose morphology, geographic range, and ecology were elucidated by Harrison and Bates (1991); also reviewed by Pavlinov et al. (1990). |
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