Dipodillus (Petteromys) somalicus Thomas 1910

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 1189-1531 : 1216

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7316535
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11334063
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scientific name	Dipodillus (Petteromys) somalicus Thomas 1910
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Dipodillus (Petteromys) somalicus Thomas 1910 View in CoL

Dipodillus (Petteromys) somalicus Thomas 1910 View in CoL , Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 5: 197.

Type Locality: Somalia, Upper Sheikh.

Vernacular Names: Somalian Dipodil.

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

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc) as Gerbillus somalicus .

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.

Lay, D. M. 1983. Taxonomy of the genus Gerbillus (Rodentia: Gerbillinae) with comments on the applications of generic and subgeneric names and an annotated list of species. Zeitschrift fur Saugetierkunde, 48: 329 - 354.

Pavlinov, I. Ya., Yu. A. Dubrovsky, O. L. Rossolimo, and E. G. Potapova. 1990. [Gerbils of the world.] Nauka, Moscow, 368 pp. (in Russian).

Pearch, M. J., P. J. J. Bates, and C. Magin. 2001. A review of the small mammal fauna of Djibouti and the results of a recent survey. Mammalia, 65: 387 - 409.

Petter, F. 1975 b. Subfamily Gerbillinae. Part 6.3. Pp. 7 - 12, in The mammals of Africa: An identification manual (J. Meester and H. W. Setzer, eds.) [issued 10 Dec 1975]. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C., not continuously paginated.