Highveld Gerbil

Taxobox
name = Highveld Gerbil
status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
familia = Muridae
genus = "Gerbilliscus"
species = "G. brantsii"
binomial = "Gerbilliscus brantsii"
binomial_authority = (Smith, 1836)
synonyms = The Highveld Gerbil ("Gerbilliscus brantsii") is a species of rodent in the Muridae family.It is found in Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.Its natural habitats are dry savanna, temperate shrubland, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, temperate grassland, and temperate desert.

References

* Griffin, M. & Coetzee, N. 2004. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/21511/all Tatera brantsii] . [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.