Gerbillus

Taxobox
name = "Gerbillus"
fossil_range = Pliocene - Recent

---

image_width = 240px
image_caption = "Gerbillus perpallidus"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
familia = Muridae
subfamilia = Gerbillinae
tribus = Gerbillini
subtribus = Gerbillina
genus = "Gerbillus"
genus_authority = Desmarest, 1804
subdivision_ranks = Subgenera
subdivision = "Hendecapleura"
"Gerbillus"

"Gerbillus" is a genus that contains most common gerbils. Traditionally the genera "Dipodillus" and "Microdillus" have been included in this genus by some authorities.

Species of "Gerbillus"

*Subgenus "Hendecapleura"
**"Gerbillus amoenus"
**"Gerbillus brockmani"
**"Gerbillus famulus"
**"Gerbillus garamantis"
**"Gerbillus grobbeni"
**"Gerbillus henleyi"
**"Gerbillus mauritaniae" (sometimes considered a separate genus "Monodia")
**"Gerbillus mesopotamiae"
**"Gerbillus muriculus"
**"Gerbillus nanus"
**"Gerbillus poecilops"
**"Gerbillus principulus"
**"Gerbillus pusillus"
**"Gerbillus syrticus"
**"Gerbillus vivax"
**"Gerbillus watersi"
*Subgenus "Gerbillus"
**"Gerbillus acticola"
**"Gerbillus agag"
**"Gerbillus andersoni"
**"Gerbillus aquilus"
**"Gerbillus burtoni"
**"Gerbillus cheesmani"
**"Gerbillus dongolanus"
**"Gerbillus dunni"
**"Gerbillus floweri"
**"Gerbillus gerbillus"
**"Gerbillus gleadowi"
**"Gerbillus hesperinus"
**"Gerbillus hoogstraali"
**"Gerbillus latastei"
**"Gerbillus nancillus"
**"Gerbillus nigeriae"
**"Gerbillus occiduus"
**"Gerbillus perpallidus"
**"Gerbillus pulvinatus"
**"Gerbillus pyramidum"
**"Gerbillus rosalinda"
**"Gerbillus tarabuli"

References

*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.