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Lowe's gerbil

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Scientific Name: Gerbillus lowei, Common Name: Lowe's gerbil

  • Kingdom Animalia -- Animal,
*Phylum Chordata  -- chordates,
  • Subphylum Vertebrata -- vertebrates,
  • Class Mammalia Linnaeus, 1758 -- mammals,
  • Subclass Theria Parker and Haswell, 1897
  • Infraclass Eutheria Gill, 1872
  • Order Rodentia Bowdich, 1821 -- rodents,
  • Suborder Myomorpha Brandt, 1855 -- mice, rats,
  • Family Muridae Illiger, 1815 -- mice, rats, voles
  • Subfamily Gerbillinae Gray, 1825
  • Genus Gerbillus Desmarest, 1804
  • Species Gerbillus lowei (Thomas and Hinton, 1923) -- Lowe's gerbil


Distribution mainly Sudan; Jebel Marra