Harrington's gerbil
Harrington's gerbil or Harrington's tateril (Taterillus harringtoni) is a species of rodent found in Central African Republic, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda. Its natural habitats are dry savanna, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, and subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland. It is sometimes considered to be conspecific with Emin's gerbil, because it has the same karyotype.[1]
| Harrington's gerbil | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Muridae |
| Genus: | Taterillus |
| Species: | T. harringtoni |
| Binomial name | |
| Taterillus harringtoni (Thomas, 1906) | |
References
- Ara Monadjem, Peter J. Taylor, Christiane Denys, Fenton P.D. Cotterill (2015). Rodents of Sub-Saharan Africa: A biogeographic and taxonomic synthesis. p. 594. ISBN 978-3-11-030191-5.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
- 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.
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