Wagner's gerbil | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Muridae |
Subfamily: | Gerbillinae |
Genus: | Dipodillus |
Species: | D. dasyurus |
Binomial name | |
Dipodillus dasyurus (Wagner, 1842) |
Wagner's gerbil, Dipodillus dasyurus, is distributed mainly in the Nile Delta, 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.