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Tatera indica
Authors/Creators
- 1. General Commission for Scientific Agricultural Research, Deir ez-Zor, Syria
- 2. High Institute of Marine Research, Tishreen University, Latakia, Syria
- 3. Department of Biology, Jordan University of Science & Technology, Irbid, Jordan
- 4. Museum Alexander Koenig, Leibniz Institute of Biodiversity Change, Adenauerallee 127, 53113 Bonn, Germany
- 5. Slovenian Museum of Natural History, Prešernova 20, SI- 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
- 6. Conservation biologist, Florence, Italy
- 7. Department of Zoology, National Museum (Natural History), Václavské nám. 68, 115 79 Praha 1 & Department of Zoology, Charles
- 8. General Organization of Remote Sensing, Department of Environmental Researches and Regional Planning, Syria
- 9. Department of Biology, University of Pisa, Via A. Volta 4, 56126 Pisa, Italy
- 10. Department of Biology, College of Science, University of Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq
Description
30. Indian Gerbil, Tatera indica (Hardwicke, 1807)
(IUCN Red List: LC)
Subspecies: T. i. taeniurus (Wagner, 1843).
Distribution: Common with a wide distribution along the Euphrates Valley and across Mesopotamia. (Fig. 36)
Previous records: Sheikh Hassan and Al-Ghazili (Misonne 1957), Qal’at er-Rahba (Kock & Nader 1983), Tell Al-Buderi, Tell Sheikh Hamad, es- Salihiyyeh, Qal’at er-Rahba, Halebiyye, Katir Magara, and el- Ukersheh (Kock 1998), Kasret Muhammed Ali and el-Ukershe (Shehab et al. 2004), Al-Hasakah area (Daoud & Khalil 2009c), Al-Safeh, Mabroukah, Beer Al-Hashem, Halabiyyeh, Qal’at er-Rahba, Ain Jum’aa, and es- Salihiyyeh (Shehab et al. 2011).
Notes
Published as part of Aidek, Ahmad E., Ibrahim, Amir, Amr, Zuhair, Hutterer, Rainer, Kryštufek, Boris, Serra, Gianluca, Benda, Petr, Shkaky, Yesra, Barbanera, Filippo & Al-Sheikhly, Omar F., 2025, Checklist of Mammals of Syria, pp. 1-130 in Zootaxa 5580 (1) on page 48, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5580.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14797597
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Hardwicke
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Rodentia
- Family
- Muridae
- Genus
- Tatera
- Species
- indica
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Tatera indica (Hardwicke, 1807) sec. Aidek, Ibrahim, Amr, Hutterer, Kryštufek, Serra, Benda, Shkaky, Barbanera & Al-Sheikhly, 2025
References
- Misonne, X. (1957) Mammiferes de la Turquie sud - orientale et du nord de la Syrie. Mammalia, 21, 53-68. https://doi.org/10.1515/mamm.1957.21.1.53
- Kock, D. & Nader, I. A. (1983) Pygmy shrew and rodents from the Near East (Mammalia: Soricidae, Rodentia). Senckenbergiana biologia, 64, 13-23.
- Kock, D. (1998) The gerbils and jirds of Syria (Mammalia: Rodentia: Muridae: Gerbillinae). Senckenbergiana Biologica, 77, 117-122.
- Daoud, A. & Khalil, N. (2009 c) Mammals Survey in Jabal Abdul - Aziz Reserve. Ministry of State for Environment Affairs, Damascus, Syria, 55 pp. [In Arabic]
- Shehab, A., Al-Ahmad, S. & Samara, F. (2011) Morphology and distribution of the Indian Gerbil, Tatera indica (Hardwicke, 1807), in Syria. (Rodentia: Gerbillinae). Zoology in the Middle East, 52 (1), 3-10. https://doi.org/10.1080/09397140.2011.10638473