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--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Muridae
--> SUBFAMILY Gerbillinae
--> GENUS Taterillus
SPECIES Taterillus lacustris
Author: | Thomas and Wroughton, 1907. | Citation: | Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 19: 37. | Common Name: | Lake Chad Tateril | Type Locality: | Nigeria, Lake Chad (= Kaddai). | Distribution: | NE Nigeria and Cameroon. | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | Comments: | Rosevear (1969) synonymized lacustris with T. gracilis, but both Robbins (1974, 1977) and F. Petter (1975b) treated it as a distinct species. Analysis of serum proteins pointed to a closer relationship of T. lacustris to T. pygargus rather than T. gracilis (Tranier et al., 1974). |
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