Bushy-tailed hairy-footed gerbil

The bushy-tailed hairy-footed gerbil, Gerbillurus vallinus, is a species of rodent found in Namibia and South Africa. Its natural habitats are dry savanna, temperate grassland and hot deserts, and it is threatened by habitat loss. The scientific name places it in the genus Gerbillurus, the hairy-footed gerbils, which also holds the hairy-footed gerbil, Gerbillurus paeba. Its biology was reviewed in a 1999 account by Edith Dempster, Michael Perrin and Colleen Downs in the journal Mammalian Species, and the species is listed in the standard reference Mammal Species of the World, in the chapter on the superfamily Muroidea by Musser and Carleton. The English Wikipedia entry is short, so the facts recorded here are the range, the habitats and the threat that the article and its references support.