The lesser short-tailed gerbil (''Dipodillus simoni'') is distributed mainly from eastern

Morocco Morocco, officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It has coastlines on the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to Algeria–Morocc ...

Egypt Egypt ( , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country spanning the Northeast Africa, northeast corner of Africa and Western Asia, southwest corner of Asia via the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to northe ...

. It is also known as Simon's dipodil. After morphological and molecular studies in 2010 ''

Dipodillus ''Dipodillus'' is a genus of rodent in the family Muridae The Muridae, or murids, are either the largest or second-largest family of rodents and of mammals, containing approximately 870 species, including many species of mice, rats, and gerbil ...

'' was ranged as a subgenus of ''

Gerbillus ''Gerbillus'' is a genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV clas ...

'', and ''Dipodillus simoni'' was renamed into ''Gerbillus simoni''.

References

* Dipodillus Rodents of North Africa Mammals described in 1881 {{Gerbillinae-stub