The lesser short-tailed gerbil (''Dipodillus simoni'') is distributed mainly from eastern
Morocco
Morocco (),, ) officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is the westernmost country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It overlooks the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to ...
to
Egypt
Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediter ...
. It is also known as Simon's dipodil. After morphological and molecular studies in 2010 ''
Dipodillus'' was ranged as a subgenus of ''
Gerbillus'', and ''Dipodillus simoni'' was renamed into ''Gerbillus simoni''.
References
* Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is of least concern
*Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. pp. 894–1531 ''in'' Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
Dipodillus
Rodents of North Africa
Mammals described in 1881
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