Mauritanian gerbil

Mauritanian gerbil
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Superfamily: Muroidea
Family: Muridae
Subfamily: Gerbillinae
Genus: Gerbillus
Species: G. mauritaniae
Binomial name
Gerbillus mauritaniae
Heim de Balsac, 1943

The Mauritanian gerbil, Gerbillus mauritaniae, is distributed mainly in northern Mauritania. Some authorities place it in a separate genus, Monodia.

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