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Gerbillus mackillingini
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Description
Gerbillus mackillingini (Thomas, 1904). Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 14:158.
TYPE LOCALITY: Egypt, Wadi Alagai, eastern desert of Nubia.
DISTRIBUTION: E desert of S Egypt (see Osborn and Helmy, 1980) and probably adjacent Sudan.
COMMENTS: Although some authors have placed this species with G. nanus (see references in Lay, 1983), Osborn and Helmy (1980) demonstrated its specific distinction.
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 552, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098
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- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFE9FFD6FFF6FFBBFFF30B06FF93FFF3 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Thomas
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Rodentia
- Family
- Muridae
- Genus
- Gerbillus
- Species
- mackillingini
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Gerbillus mackillingini (Thomas, 1904) sec. Musser & Carleton, 1993
References
- Osborn, D. J., and I. Helmy. 1980. The contemporary land mammals of Egypt (including Sinai). Fieldiana: Zoology, 5: 1 - 579.
- 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.