Agag gerbil
Appearance
Agag gerbil | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Muridae |
Genus: | Gerbillus |
Species: | G. agag
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Binomial name | |
Gerbillus agag Thomas, 1903
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The Agag gerbil (Gerbillus agag) is distributed mainly in southern Mauritania to northern Nigeria and Sudan. IUCN lists the junior synonyms Gerbillus cosensi and G. dalloni as critically endangered.
References
- 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.
- Schlitter; Granjon (2004). "Gerbillus agag". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2004. Retrieved 8 May 2006.
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- Schlitter; Granjon (2004). "Gerbillus dalloni". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2004. Retrieved 6 May 2006.
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