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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Muridae
--> SUBFAMILY Gerbillinae
--> GENUS Taterillus
SPECIES Taterillus arenarius
| Author: | Robbins, 1974. | | Citation: | Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 87: 399. | | Common Name: | Robbins’s Tateril | | Type Locality: | Mauritania, Trarza Region, Tiguent. | | Distribution: | N Sahelian savanna and subdesert from Mauritania through Mali to Niger (see Robbins, 1974); eastern limits unknown although Sicard et al. (1988) believed the species to be confined to the left bank of the Niger River. | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | In a detailed multivariate analysis, Robbins (1974) compared his new species with samples of T. gracilis and T. pygargus. The latter and T. arenarius are sympatric in S Mauritania. Results from a chromosome banding study (R- and C-bands) of T. arenarius as reported by Volobouev and Granjon (1996:45), "revealed the presence of an XX/XY1Y2 sex-chromosome system in the karyotype [2n = 30/31, FNa = 36], as found previously in three other congeneric species." Ecology and membership in small mammal community of SW Mauritania discussed by Granjon et al. (2002b). |
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