Gerbillus

Common rodents are gerbil Gerbillus dasyurus and the Sundevall's jird Meriones crassus.

Arabian Oryx Sanctuary, Oman 2008

Among the small mammals, gerbils (e.g. Gerbillus campestris and G. nanus) are the most abundant species.

Saharan halophytics 2008

Unique to these wetlands are two species of mammals: Bunn's Short-tailed Bandicoot Rat (Erythronesokia bunnii) and Mesopotamian gerbil (Gerbillus mesopotamiae).

Tigris-Euphrates alluvial salt marsh 2008

There are a number of nearly endemic small mammals species including, Gerbillus andersoni, Gerbillus latastei, G. syrticus (CR), Gerbillus grobbeni (CR), Allataga tetradactyla (EN) and Microtus guentheri.

Mediterranean dry woodlands and steppe 2008

However, it does possess some endemics, mainly small, arid adapted rodents, especially four species within the genus Gerbillus (Gerbillus bottai, G. muriculus, G. nancillus and G. stigmonyx).

Sahelian Acacia savanna 2008

Among the small mammals there is also a near-endemic gerbil, Gerbillus pulvinatus.

Masai xeric grasslands and shrublands 2008

Only one species of vertebrate is strictly endemic to the South Saharan Steppe, the gerbil Gerbillus dongolanus.

South Saharan steppe and woodlands 2007

Other near endemic mammals found here are two more species of Gerbil Gerbillus mauritaniae and G. principulus.

South Saharan steppe and woodlands 2007

There are also a number of smaller mammals including four Gerbillus species, one Microdillus species, one white-toothed shrew (Crocidura greenwoodi, VU), and the walo (Ammodillus imbellis, VU), a gerbil known only from Somalia.

Somali Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets 2007

Two gerbils, Burton's gerbil (Gerbillus burtoni CR) and the hairy-footed gerbil (Gerbillus lowei CR), are both strictly endemic to the higher elevations of the Jebel Marra, with the latter confined to hillsides near the crater lakes.

East Saharan montane xeric woodlands 2007