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GBIF·4264984speciesAnimalia164 occurrence records
  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classMammalia
  4. ›orderRodentia
  5. ›familyMuridae
  6. ›genusDipodillus
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IUCN DD · Data deficient

Somalian Dipodil

Dipodillus somalicus (Thomas, 1910)

First described in: Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8 vol.5 p.197

The Somalian gerbil (Gerbillus somalicus) is a species of rodent in the subfamily Gerbillinae. It is known only from Djibouti and Somalia.

== References ==

Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF

discussion

Discussion: Subgenus Petteromys. Included in D. campestris by F. Petter (1975 b) and Pavlinov et al. (1990), but treated by Lay (1983) as a distinct species pending taxonomic revision.

Order Rodentia - Family Muridae

distribution

Distribution: Somalia (Lay, 1983) and Djibouti (Pearch et al., 2001).

Order Rodentia - Family Muridae

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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 4264984.