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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Muridae
--> SUBFAMILY Gerbillinae
--> GENUS Gerbillus
--> SUBGENUS Hendecapleura
SPECIES Gerbillus (Hendecapleura) mesopotamiae
| Author: | Harrison, 1956. | | Citation: | J. Mammal., 37: 417. | | Common Name: | Mesopotamian Gerbil | | Type Locality: | Iraq, southwest of Faluja, W bank of Euphrates River, near Amiriya. | | Distribution: | Iraq and SW Iran in valleys of the Tigris, Euphrates, and Karun Rivers (see Lay and Nadler, 1975). | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | Subgenus Hendecapleura. Originally described as a subspecies of Dipodillus dasyurus, but later regarded as a distinctive species defined and reviewed by Lay and Nadler (1975), Harrison and Bates (1991), and Pavlinov et al. (1990). |
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