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Lesser short-tailed gerbil
Species of rodent / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The lesser short-tailed gerbil (Dipodillus simoni) is distributed mainly from eastern Morocco to Egypt. It is also known as Simon's dipodil. After morphological and molecular studies in 2010 Dipodillus was ranged as a subgenus of Gerbillus, and Dipodillus simoni was renamed into Gerbillus simoni.[1]
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Lesser short-tailed gerbil | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Muridae |
Genus: | Dipodillus |
Species: | D. simoni |
Binomial name | |
Dipodillus simoni Lataste, 1881 | |
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