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Gerbillus nanus Blanford 1875

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Description

Gerbillus nanus Blanford, 1875. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 4, 16:312.

TYPE LOCALITY: Pakistan, Gedrosia (see Lay, 1983).

DISTRIBUTION: An extensive range from the Baluchistan region of NW India, Pakistan, S Afghanistan, and Iran through the Arabian Peninsula, Iraq, Jordan, Israel, and North Africa to Morocco.

SYNONYMS: arabium, Hilda, indus, lixa, mimulus, setonbrownei.

COMMENTS: Regional reviews of the species provided by Lay and Nadler (1975), Harrison and Bates (1991), Osborn and Helmy (1980), Ranck (1968), and Kowalski and RzebikKowalska (1991). Lay (1983) remarked that G. nanus and G. amoenus share several morphological and chromosomal traits and that the nature of their relationship should be explored by careful revision. Cranial morphology of Qatarian G. nanus and G. cheesmani contrasted by Madkour (1984).

Notes

Published as part of Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, pp. 501-755 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 553, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098

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Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098 (DOI)
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Biodiversity

Family
Muridae
Genus
Gerbillus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Rodentia
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Blanford
Species
nanus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Gerbillus nanus Blanford, 1875 sec. Musser & Carleton, 1993

References

  • Lay, D. M. 1983. Taxonomy of the genus Gerbillus (Rodentia: Gerbillinae) with comments on the applications of generic and subgeneric names and an annotated list of species. Zeitschrift fur Saugetierkunde, 48: 329 - 354.
  • Lay, D. M., and C. F. Nadler. 1975. A study of Gerbillus (Rodentia: Muridae) east of the Euphrates River. Mammalia, 39: 423 - 445.
  • Harrison, D. L., and P. J. J. Bates. 1991. The mammals of Arabia, Second ed. Harrison Zoological Museum, Sevenoaks, United Kingdom, 354 pp.
  • Osborn, D. J., and I. Helmy. 1980. The contemporary land mammals of Egypt (including Sinai). Fieldiana: Zoology, 5: 1 - 579.
  • Ranck, G. L. 1968. The rodents of Libya: Taxonomy, ecology, and zoogeographical relationships. Bulletin of the United States National Museum, 275: 1 - 264.
  • Madkour, G. 1984. Chondral and osteological structures in the cranial region of common Qatarian gerbils. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 213: 247 - 257.