Four-toed jerboa: Where It Lives, Map & Facts

Where the four-toed jerboa lives – recorded in 1 country, with quick facts from Wikidata and an introduction from Wikipedia.

Scientific name	Allactaga tetradactyla
Group	Mice, rats & other rodents
Status	Data deficient (Wikidata, IUCN category label)
Found in	1 country
Continents	Africa
Class	Mammal
Order	Rodentia
Family	Dipodidae

Where does the four-toed jerboa live?

Open-licence (CC0 / CC BY) wild records published on GBIF place the four-toed jerboa in 1 country or territory across Africa.

Egypt

Countries with at least a handful of records (a minimum share of the species’ records, to leave out vagrants and escapes). Records with coordinates only; captive and fossil records excluded.

Is the four-toed jerboa endangered?

The four-toed jerboa’s conservation status recorded in Wikidata is “Data deficient” (an IUCN Red List category label). Source: Wikidata.

What kind of animal is the four-toed jerboa?

The four-toed jerboa (Allactaga tetradactyla) is a mammal in the order Rodentia and the family Dipodidae, genus Scarturus. (Taxonomy from Wikidata.)

About the four-toed jerboa

The four-toed jerboa (Scarturus tetradactylus) is a rodent of the family Dipodidae and genus Scarturus that has four digits. Four-toed jerboas are native to Egypt and Libya, and thus the only species of Allactaginae found outside West and Central Asia. They live in coastal salt marshes and dry deserts.

Text in “About” is quoted from the Wikipedia article Four-toed jerboa (revision 1352678136), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: lead section excerpted verbatim, formatting removed. Quick facts, taxonomy and status: Wikidata Q306854 (CC0). Countries and pin: GBIF.org occurrence records (CC0 / CC BY 4.0).