Waters's gerbil
Scientific Name: Gerbillus watersi , Common Name: Water'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 watersi- de Winton, 1901 -- Waters's gerbil
Distributed mainly in Sudan, Somalia, Djibouti