Lowe's gerbil

Lowe's gerbil
Conservation status
Data Deficient  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Muridae
Genus:	Dipodillus
Species:	D. lowei
Binomial name
Dipodillus lowei (Thomas & Hinton, 1923)

Lowe's gerbil (Dipodillus lowei) is distributed mainly in Sudan; Jebel Marra. Less than 250 individuals of this species are thought to persist in the wild. It is named after the collector Willoughby Prescott Lowe.

References

• Granjon, L. (2017). "Gerbillus lowei". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2017 e.T9133A22463471. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-2.RLTS.T9133A22463471.en . Retrieved 12 November 2021. Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is listed as data deficient
• 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.