Black-tailed gerbil

The black-tailed gerbil, Gerbilliscus nigricaudus, is a rodent in the family Muridae, order Rodentia, and belongs to the genus Gerbilliscus. It is found in eastern Africa, with records from Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia and Tanzania. Its natural habitats are dry savanna, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland and arable land, so it lives in open, dry country and also uses land that people farm. The scientific name is credited to Peters in 1878, and the parentheses around that credit show the species has since been moved to its present genus. The International Union for Conservation of Nature category recorded for it in the Global Biodiversity Information Facility is Least Concern.