Cape Gerbil

Taxobox
name = Cape Gerbil
status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
familia = Muridae
genus = "Gerbilliscus"
species = "G. afra"
binomial = "Gerbilliscus afra"
binomial_authority = (Gray, 1830)
synonyms = The Cape Gerbil ("Gerbilliscus afra") is a species of rodent in the Muridae family.It is found only in South Africa.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry shrubland and temperate desert.

References

* Coetzee, N. 2004. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/21509/all Tatera afra] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 20 July 2007.
*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.