Gerbilliscus (Taterona) guineae 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 : 1218

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Gerbilliscus (Taterona) guineae Thomas 1910
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Gerbilliscus (Taterona) guineae Thomas 1910 View in CoL

Gerbilliscus (Taterona) guineae Thomas 1910 View in CoL , Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 5: 351.

Type Locality: Guinea-Bissau, Gunnal.

Vernacular Names: Guinean Gerbil.

Synonyms: Gerbilliscus (Taterona) picta ( Hayman 1936) .

Distribution: From Gambia and Senegal ( Duplantier and Granjon, 1992), through Guinea ( Ziegler et al., 2002), Sierra Leone, and S Mali ( Meinig, 2000) to Burkina Faso and Ghana.

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc) as Tatera guineae .

Discussion: Subgenus Taterona . Reviewed by Rosevear (1969). Shown to be morphologically distinct from G. robustus by Bates (1985) and Pavlinov (1997). Gautun et al. (1985) provided chromosomal information. Ghana and Sierra Leone populations reviewed by Grubb et al. (1998), who explained why picta should be included in G. guineae .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Muridae

Genus

Gerbilliscus

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Gerbilliscus (Taterona) guineae Thomas 1910

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn 2005
2005
Loc

Gerbilliscus (Taterona) guineae

Thomas 1910: 351
1910
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