Agag Gerbil

Agag gerbil
Conservation status
Data Deficient (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Superfamily:	Muroidea
Family:	Muridae
Subfamily:	Gerbillinae
Genus:	Gerbillus
Species:	G. agag
Binomial name
Gerbillus agag Thomas, 1903
Synonyms
cosensi Dollman, 1914 dalloni Heim de Balsac, 1936

The Agag gerbil, Gerbillus agag, is distributed mainly in southern Mauritania to northern Nigeria and Sudan. IUCN lists the junior synonyms Gerbillus cosensi and G. dalloni as critically endangered.

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.
• Schlitter & Granjon (2004). Gerbillus agag. 2006. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. www.iucnredlist.org. Retrieved on 08 May 2006. Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is listed as data deficient
• Schlitter, D. 2004. Gerbillus cosensis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 19 July 2007.
• Schlitter & Granjon (2004). Gerbillus dalloni. 2006. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. www.iucnredlist.org. Retrieved on 06 May 2006. Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is listed as data deficient