Wagner's gerbil (Dipodillus dasyurus) is a gerbil that is native mainly to the Nile Delta, Israel, the Sinai, Syria, Iraq and the Arabian Peninsula. It also referred to as the rough-tailed dipodil or Wadi Hof gerbil. They are solo, burrowing mammals that are nocturnally active.[2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Muridae |
| Genus: | Dipodillus |
| Species: | D. dasyurus
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| Binomial name | |
| Dipodillus dasyurus (Wagner, 1842)
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Gerbillus dasyurus | |
References
edit- ^ Amori, G.; Hutterer, R.; Kryštufek, B.; Yigit, N.; Mitsainas, G.; Palomo, L.; Aulagnier, S. (2021) [amended version of 2016 assessment]. "Gerbillus dasyurus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2021: e.T9116A197509063. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-1.RLTS.T9116A197509063.en. Retrieved 21 February 2022.
- ^ Alagaili, A.N.; Mohammed, O.B.; Bennett, N.C.; Oosthuizen, M.K. (October 2012). "Lights out, let's move about: locomotory activity patterns of Wagner's gerbil from the desert of Saudi Arabia". African Zoology. 47 (2): 195–202.
- 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.
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