Wagner's gerbil

Wagner's gerbil
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Muridae
Genus:	Dipodillus
Species:	D. dasyurus
Binomial name
Dipodillus dasyurus (Wagner, 1842)
Synonyms
Gerbillus dasyurus

Wagner's gerbil (Dipodillus dasyurus) is a gerbil that is native mainly to the Nile Delta, Israel, the Sinai, Syria, Iraq and the Arabian Peninsula. It also referred to as the rough-tailed dipodil or Wadi Hof gerbil. They are solo, burrowing mammals that are nocturnally active. ^[2]

References

1. Amori, G.; Hutterer, R.; Kryštufek, B.; Yigit, N.; Mitsainas, G.; Palomo, L.; Aulagnier, S. (2021) [amended version of 2016 assessment]. "Gerbillus dasyurus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2021 e.T9116A197509063. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-1.RLTS.T9116A197509063.en . Retrieved 21 February 2022.
2. Alagaili, A.N.; Mohammed, O.B.; Bennett, N.C.; Oosthuizen, M.K. (October 2012). "Lights out, let's move about: locomotory activity patterns of Wagner's gerbil from the desert of Saudi Arabia". African Zoology. 47 (2): 195–202.

• 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.