North African gerbil

North African Gerbil Dipodillus campestris
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Muridae
Genus:	Dipodillus
Species:	D. campestris
Binomial name
Dipodillus campestris (Loche, 1867)
File:Gerbillus campestris distribution.png
Synonyms
Gerbillus campestris (Loche, 1867) quadrimaculatus (Lataste, 1882)

The North African gerbil (Dipodillus campestris) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.

IUCN lists Gerbillus quadrimaculatus, a synonym of Dipodillus campestris, as critically endangered.

Distribution

The North African gerbil is found in Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Mali, Morocco, Niger, Sudan, Tunisia, and possibly Chad and Mauritania.

Its natural habitats are arable land and rocky areas of the Maghreb, and hot Saharan deserts.

References

• Granjon, L. 2004. Dipodillus campestris. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 19 July 2007.
• 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.