Kemp's Gerbil

Taxobox
name = Kemp's Gerbil
status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
familia = Muridae
genus = "Gerbilliscus"
species = "G. kempi"
binomial = "Gerbilliscus kempi"
binomial_authority = (Wroughton, 1906)
synonyms = "gambiana" (Thomas, 1910)

Kemp's Gerbil ("Gerbilliscus kempi") is a species of rodent in the Muridae family.It is found in Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Mali, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Togo, Uganda, and possibly Liberia.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, dry savanna, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, arable land, and pastureland.

References

* Granjon, L. 2004. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/45076/all Tatera gambiana] . [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.
* Schlitter, D., Granjon, L. & Corti, M. 2004. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/21515/all Tatera kempi] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 20 July 2007.