Least Gerbil

Taxobox
name = Least gerbil
status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1
trend = unknown
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
superfamilia = Muroidea
familia = Muridae
subfamilia = Gerbillinae
genus = "Gerbillus"
species = "G. pusillus"
binomial = "Gerbillus pusillus"
binomial_authority = Peters, 1878
synonyms = "diminutus" Dollman, 1911
"percivali" Dollman, 1914
"ruberrimus" Rhoads, 1896

The least gerbil, "Gerbillus pusillus" is distributed mainly in southern Sudan, southwestern Ethiopia, Kenya, and Tanzania.

References

*Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. Pp. 894-1531 "in" Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
* Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is of least concern
* Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is of least concern