Gerbillus rosalinda

St. Leger, 1929

Rosalinda 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 : Gerbillus

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

St. Leger, J. 1929-09-01. A new gerbil from Kordofan. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (10)4(21):295-296.

Authority publication link

https://doi.org/10.1080/00222932908673057

Original name as described

Gerbillus rosalinda

Other common names

Rosalind's Gerbil

Type material

BMNH:Mamm:1929.5.19.12

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/ee35bf69-ccf0-4340-9244-8e062d6203e6

Type locality

145 km SW El Obeid, Abu Zabad, Kordofan, Sudan.

Biogeographic realm

Afrotropic

Country distribution

Sudan · Somalia

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

Species Permalink

https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1002944

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Names and synonyms

Present and past (if available) associated names to the species. Click on a name to view its details. If the list is long, scroll down to see more.

Gerbillus rosalinda

St. Leger, 1929

Family

Muridae

Root name

rosalinda

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

BMNH:Mamm:1929.5.19.12

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/ee35bf69-ccf0-4340-9244-8e062d6203e6

Authority page

295

Authority publication

Annals and Magazine of Natural History

Name usages

  1. Corbet & Hill (1980:164) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63069)
  2. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl (1982:417) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63071)
  3. Musser & Carleton (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8562)
  4. Happold (2013:327) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/27625)
  5. Wilson, Mittermeier & Lacher (2017:637) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/57900)
  6. Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #9101) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
  7. Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #9101) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
  8. Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1002944) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)
  9. International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/9101/22465525) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

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