HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Muridae
--> SUBFAMILY Gerbillinae
--> GENUS Gerbillus
--> SUBGENUS Gerbillus
SPECIES Gerbillus (Gerbillus) hoogstraali
Author: | Lay, 1975. | Citation: | Fieldiana Zool., 65: 90. | Common Name: | Hoogstraal’s Gerbil | Type Locality: | Morocco, 7 km S Taroudannt. | Distribution: | Recorded only from Morocco in the Souss Plain (between High Atlas and Anti Atlas Mtns) and the type locality (Aulagnier, in litt.; see map in Aulagnier and Thevenot, 1986). | Status: | IUCN – Critically Endangered. | Comments: | Subgenus Gerbillus. Diagnostic features along with morphological and chromosomal comparisons between G. hoogstraali and Moroccan G. hesperinus and G. occiduus presented by Lay (1975). Associated with G. latastei by Pavlinov et al. (1990). Reviewed by Aulagnier and Thevenot (1986). |
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