Gerbillus campestris

Loche, 1867

North African Gerbil

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Euarchontoglires
Order : Rodentia
Suborder : Supramyomorpha
Infraorder : Myomorphi
Superfamily : Muroidea
Family : Muridae
Subfamily : Gerbillinae
Tribe : Gerbillini
Genus : Gerbillus
Subgenus : Dipodillus

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Loche, G.G. 1867. Exploration scientifique de l'Algérie pendant les années 1840, 1841, 1842. Histoire naturelle des mammifères. Arthus Bertrand, Paris, 123 pp.

Authority publication link

https://books.google.com/books?id=n1NBAAAAcAAJ

Original name as described

Gerbillus campestris

Other common names

Large North African Gerbil · North African Dipodil

Type material

MNHN 377

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"le Sahara algérien près de Guerrara dans les oasis." Restricted by F. Lataste in 1881 to "environs de Philippeville (province de Constantine)," Algeria.

Biogeographic realm

Palearctic · Afrotropic

Country distribution

Morocco · Tunisia · Algeria · Libya · Mauritania · Mali · Niger · Chad · Sudan · Egypt

Taxonomy notes

the name venustus is included under this species and has priority over campestris, however, the name has not been used for the species in recent works and campestris is retained until further publications prove otherwise; moved from Dipodillus to Gerbillus

Taxonomy notes citation

Abiadh, A., Chetoui, M. B., Lamine-Cheniti, T., Capanna, E., & Colangelo, P. (2010). Molecular phylogenetics of the genus Gerbillus (Rodentia, Gerbillinae): Implications for systematics, taxonomy and chromosomal evolution. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 56(2), 513-518.

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

Species Permalink

https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1002913

Country distribution map

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