Pygmy gerbil
| Gerbillus henleyi | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Muridae |
| Genus: | Gerbillus |
| Species: | G. Henley
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| Binomial name | |
| Gerbillus Henley de Winton, 1903
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The pygmy gerbil (Gerbillus henleyi) is distributed mainly in Algeria to Israel and the Arabian Peninsula. It is also known as Henley's gerbil or pygmy dipodil. [1]Gerbillus henleyi is a long-tailed small gerbil with a back coat that is dark grey-brown with specific white spots, and they have small upper molars. Gerbillus henleyi, like other species of Gerbillus, forage nocturnally and have mainly a plant based diet, and also depend on those dietary items for energy and water.[2]
References
- Template:IUCN2006 Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is of least concern
- ^ Bouarakia, O., Denys, C., Nicolas, V., Tifarouine, L., Benazzou, T., & Benhoussa, A. (2018). Notes on the distribution and phylogeography of two rare small Gerbillinae (Rodentia, Muridae) in Morocco: Gerbillus simoni and Gerbillus henleyi. Comptes Rendus Biologies, 341(7-8), 398–409. doi: 10.1016/j.crvi.2018.08.001
- ^ Khokhlova, I. S., Kam, M., & Degen, A. A. (1997). A Small Gerbil That Maximizes Intake of Energy from Low-Energy Food. Journal of Mammalogy, 78(1), 158–162. doi: 10.2307/1382648