The Nigerian gerbil (Gerbillus nigeriae) is a gerbil of the genus Gerbillus, in the subfamily Gerbillinae of the rodent family Muridae. Wikipedia describes it as distributed mainly in northern Nigeria and Burkina Faso, and the Mammal Diversity Database lists a wider West African range that takes in Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger and Senegal as well. It was described by Oldfield Thomas and Martin Hinton in 1920 from a series of small mammals collected near Kano, and its holotype locality is Farniso, near Kano, in northern Nigeria. The database gives Dallon's gerbil as another common name, places the species in the Afrotropical realm as a living species known from the wild, and records its IUCN Red List status as Least Concern.
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Muridae, Taxa Source Mammal Diversity Database: Gerbillus nigeriae
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is distributed mainly in northern Nigeria and Burkina Faso
Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.
Source Nigerian gerbil (Wikipedia)LeadQuote, Lead
is distributed mainly in northern Nigeria and Burkina Faso
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1. Mammal Diversity Database: Gerbillus nigeriae
Mammal Diversity DatabaseSpecies page, IUCN Red List status
Least Concern
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Child Taxon Of: Muridae, Species page, Taxonomy
Family: Muridae
In Group: Rodents And Lagomorphs, Species page, Taxonomy, order
Order: Rodentia
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is distributed mainly in northern Nigeria and Burkina Faso
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