Gerbilliscus: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Mammalia
- Order
- Rodentia
- Family
- Muridae
- Genus
- Gerbilliscus
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Gerbilliscus
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Gerbilliscus
Gerbilliscus is a genus of rodent in the subfamily Gerbillinae (gerbils) of the family Muridae. It contains the following species, all native to Africa:
- Cape gerbil (Gerbilliscus afra)
- Boehm's gerbil (Gerbilliscus boehmi)
- Highveld gerbil (Gerbilliscus brantsii)
- Guinean gerbil (Gerbilliscus guineae)
- Gorongoza gerbil (Gerbilliscus inclusus)
- Kemp's gerbil (Gerbilliscus kempi)
- Bushveld gerbil (Gerbilliscus leucogaster)
- Black-tailed gerbil (Gerbilliscus nigricaudus)
- Phillips's gerbil (Gerbilliscus phillipsi)
- Fringe-tailed gerbil (Gerbilliscus robustus)
- Savanna gerbil (Gerbilliscus validus)
Species currently classified in this genus were formerly treated in the genus Tatera.
...Gerbilliscus in languages:
- Bokmål
- Sørlige Dvergørkenrotter
- English
- Hairy-footed Gerbils
- Finnish
- karvajalkagerbiilit
- Polish
- myszoskoczek
- Polish
- myszoskocznik
Images from inaturalist.org observations:
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