Common Gundi

Common Gundi
Ctenodactylus gundi
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Suborder:	Hystricomorpha
Infraorder:	Ctenodactylomorphi
Family:	Ctenodactylidae
Genus:	Ctenodactylus
Species:	C. gundi
Binomial name
Ctenodactylus gundi (Rothmann, 1776)

The Common Gundi (Ctenodactylus gundi) is a species of rodent in the family Ctenodactylidae. It is found in Algeria, Libya, Morocco, and Tunisia. The parasitic organism Toxoplasma gondii was first described in 1908 in Tunis by Charles Nicolle and Louis Manceaux within the tissues of the Gundi.

References

• Aulagnier, S. 2004. Ctenodactylus gundi. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 29 July 2007.
• Dieterlen, Fritz (16 November 2005). "Family Ctenodactylidae (pp. 1536-1537)". In Wilson, Don E., and Reeder, DeeAnn M., eds. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2 vols. (2142 pp.). p. 1536. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=13300005.