Wagner's gerbil
Wagner's gerbil | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Muridae |
Genus: | Dipodillus |
Species: | D. dasyurus
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Binomial name | |
Dipodillus dasyurus (Wagner, 1842)
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Synonyms | |
Gerbillus dasyurus |
Wagner's gerbil (Dipodillus dasyurus) is a gerbil that is native mainly to the Nile Delta, Israel, the Sinai, Syria, Iraq and the Arabian Peninsula. It also referred to as the rough-tailed dipodil or Wadi Hof gerbil. They are solo, burrowing mammals that are nocturnally active.[2]
References[]
- ^ Amori, G., Hutterer, R., Kryštufek, B., Yigit, N., Mitsainas, G., Palomo, L. & Aulagnier, S. 2021. Gerbillus dasyurus (amended version of 2016 assessment). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: e.T9116A197509063. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-1.RLTS.T9116A197509063.en. Downloaded on 24 April 2021.
- ^ Alagaili, A.N.; Mohammed, O.B.; Bennett, N.C.; Oosthuizen, M.K. (October 2012). "Lights out, let's move about: locomotory activity patterns of Wagner's gerbil from the desert of Saudi Arabia". African Zoology. 47 (2): 195–202.
- Amori, G.; Hutterer, R.; Kryštufek, B.; Yigit, N.; Mitsainas, G.; Palomo, L.; Aulagnier, S. (2021). "Gerbillus dasyurus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2021: e.T9116A197509063. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-1.RLTS.T9116A197509063.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
- Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. Pp. 894–1531 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
Categories:
- IUCN Red List least concern species
- Dipodillus
- Mammals of the Middle East
- Mammals of Western Asia
- Mammals described in 1842
- Gerbillinae stubs
- Africa stubs