Sahelo-Sudanian gerbil

The Sahelo-Sudanian gerbil, known to the Mammal Diversity Database as Gerbilliscus gambianus and also called the Gambian gerbil, is a rodent of the family Muridae in the gerbil subfamily Gerbillinae, tribe Gerbillurini. Oldfield Thomas described it in 1910 as Tatera gambiana from Marakissa in the Gambia, at about 152 metres above sea level. The database lists it as a living species in the Afrotropical realm, with a recorded distribution across Chad, the Gambia, Mali, Niger and Senegal, and notes that the species was split from the gerbil called kempii and that its epithet should take the masculine ending gambianus to agree with the genus. Its IUCN Red List status is recorded as Not Evaluated.