The Darfur gerbil, Gerbillus muriculus, is a rodent distributed mainly in western Sudan. It was described by O. Thomas and Hinton in 1923 as Dipodillus muriculus, in a paper on the mammals obtained in Darfur by the Lynes-Lowe Expedition, and its type locality is Madu, about 120 km north-east of El Fasher, at an elevation of about 884 m. The Mammal Diversity Database places it in the family Muridae, subfamily Gerbillinae, tribe Gerbillini, genus Gerbillus and subgenus Hendecapleura, in the Afrotropical biogeographic realm, and lists it as a living species found in the wild that is also treated in Mammal Species of the World.
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Muridae, Taxa Source Mammal Diversity Database: Gerbillus muriculus (Mammal Diversity Database)
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The Darfur gerbil (Gerbillus muriculus) is distributed mainly in western Sudan.
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Child Taxon Of: Muridae, Taxonomy
Family: Muridae
In Group: Rodents And Lagomorphs, Taxonomy
Order: Rodentia
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The Darfur gerbil (Gerbillus muriculus) is distributed mainly in western Sudan.
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