Lesser short-tailed gerbil
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Species: | D. simoni
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Dipodillus simoni Lataste, 1881
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The lesser short-tailed gerbil, Dipodillus simoni is distributed mainly from eastern Morocco to Egypt. It is also known as Simon's dipodil.
References
- Template:IUCN2006 Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is of least concern
- 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.