Gerbillus (Gerbillus) hoogstraali Lay 1975

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 : 1228

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scientific name	Gerbillus (Gerbillus) hoogstraali Lay 1975
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Gerbillus (Gerbillus) hoogstraali Lay 1975 , Fieldiana Zool., 65: 90.

Type Locality: Morocco, 7 km S Taroudannt.

Vernacular Names: Hoogstraal's Gerbil.

Distribution: Recorded only from Morocco in the Souss Plain (between High Atlas and Anti Atlas Mtns) and the type locality (Aulagnier, in litt.; see map in Aulagnier and Thevenot, 1986).

Conservation: IUCN – Critically Endangered.

Discussion: Subgenus Gerbillus . Diagnostic features along with morphological and chromosomal comparisons between G. hoogstraali and Moroccan G. hesperinus and G. occiduus presented by Lay (1975). Associated with G. latastei by Pavlinov et al. (1990). Reviewed by Aulagnier and Thevenot (1986).