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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Muridae
--> SUBFAMILY Gerbillinae
--> GENUS Gerbillus
--> SUBGENUS Hendecapleura
SPECIES Gerbillus (Hendecapleura) principulus
| Author: | Thomas and Hinton, 1923. | | Citation: | Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1923: 262. | | Common Name: | Principal Gerbil | | Type Locality: | Sudan, Jebel Meidob, El Malha. | | Distribution: | Known only from the type locality. | | Status: | IUCN – Critically Endangered. | | Comments: | Subgenus Hendecapleura. This species has been associated with G. nanus or G. watersi, but Lay (1983) regarded it as valid pending systematic revision. See the discussion in Pavlinov et al. (1990). |
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