Gerbillus dunni: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Mammalia
- Order
- Rodentia
- Family
- Muridae
- Genus
- Gerbillus
- Species
- Gerbillus dunni
- Scientific Name
- Gerbillus dunni
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Dunn's gerbil
Dunn's gerbil (Gerbillus dunni) is a rodent species distributed mainly in Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somaliland and Djibouti. It is an animal of dry grassland and rocky plains. It is also sometimes called the "Somalia gerbil", not to be confused with the Somalian gerbil or the Somali gerbil.
Dunn's gerbil was first described by the British zoologist Oldfield Thomas as Gerbillus dunni in 1904. Its karyotype is 2n=74. Its natural habitat is not under threat and the International Union for Conservation of Nature has assessed its conservation status as being of "least concern".
...Gerbillus dunni in languages:
- Czech
- pískomil etiopský
- English
- bilen gerbil
- English
- Somalia Gerbil
- Finnish
- etiopiangerbiili
- French
- Gerbille de Dunn
- Polish
- myszoskoczka somalijska
Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Gerbillus acticola
- Gerbillus agag
- Gerbillus andersoni
- Gerbillus aquilus
- Gerbillus cheesmani
- Gerbillus dunni
- Gerbillus floweri
- Gerbillus gerbillus
- Gerbillus gleadowi
- Gerbillus hesperinus
- Gerbillus hoogstraali
- Gerbillus latastei
- Gerbillus nancillus
- Gerbillus nigeriae
- Gerbillus occiduus
- Gerbillus pulvinatus
- Gerbillus pyramidum
- Gerbillus rosalinda
- Gerbillus tarabuli