Black-tufted gerbil

The black-tufted gerbil (Gerbillus famulus) is a small rodent of the gerbil subfamily Gerbillinae, and it is distributed mainly across the southwestern Arabian Peninsula. It belongs to the large genus Gerbillus, and Wikipedia counts it among the rodents of Asia. The species was described in 1895 by Yerbury and Oldfield Thomas. The International Union for Conservation of Nature assessed it in 2017 as Least Concern, the category for species that are not currently judged to be close to threatened. The encyclopedia article on this species is a short stub that gives its range and classification only, so details of its habitat, diet, breeding and behavior are not recorded in the source used for this entry and are left for later sourced work rather than guessed.