Published December 31, 1993 | Version v1
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Gerbillus brockmani

Description

Gerbillus brockmani (Thomas, 1910). Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 5:420.

TYPE LOCALITY: Somalia, Burao, 85 mi S Berbera.

DISTRIBUTION: Somalia.

COMMENTS: Petter (1975b) placed brockmani in synonymy with G. nanus, but no evidence indicates that the species occurs anywhere remotely near Somalia (see Lay, 1983).

Notes

Published as part of Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, pp. 501-755 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 549, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098

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Scientific name authorship
Thomas
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Rodentia
Family
Muridae
Genus
Gerbillus
Species
brockmani
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Gerbillus brockmani (Thomas, 1910) sec. Musser & Carleton, 1993

References

  • Petter, F. 1975 b. Subfamily Gerbillinae. Part 6.3. Pp. 7 - 12, in The mammals of Africa: An identification manual (J. Meester and H. W. Setzer, eds.) [issued 10 Dec 1975]. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C., not continuously paginated.
  • Lay, D. M. 1983. Taxonomy of the genus Gerbillus (Rodentia: Gerbillinae) with comments on the applications of generic and subgeneric names and an annotated list of species. Zeitschrift fur Saugetierkunde, 48: 329 - 354.