Lesser short-tailed gerbil: Where It Lives, Map & Facts

Lesser short-tailed gerbil Dipodillus simoni

Where the lesser short-tailed gerbil lives – recorded in 2 countries, with quick facts from Wikidata and an introduction from Wikipedia.

Recorded in (GBIF)Representative wild record

Pin and shaded countries are approximate. The pin is a representative wild-collected museum specimen (a central record among 58 open-licence GBIF records – few open-licence observations were available), not an official range. Method · Records on GBIF · See mice, rats & other rodents on the world map

Scientific name	Dipodillus simoni
Group	Mice, rats & other rodents
Found in	2 countries
Continents	Africa
Class	Mammal
Order	Rodentia
Family	Muridae

Where does the lesser short-tailed gerbil live?

Open-licence (CC0 / CC BY) wild records published on GBIF place the lesser short-tailed gerbil in 2 countries and territories across Africa.

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.

What kind of animal is the lesser short-tailed gerbil?

The lesser short-tailed gerbil (Dipodillus simoni) is a mammal in the order Rodentia and the family Muridae, genus Dipodillus. (Taxonomy from Wikidata.)

About the lesser short-tailed gerbil

The lesser short-tailed gerbil (Dipodillus simoni) is distributed mainly from eastern Morocco to Egypt. It is also known as Simon's dipodil. After morphological and molecular studies in 2010 Dipodillus was ranged as a subgenus of Gerbillus, and Dipodillus simoni was renamed into Gerbillus simoni.

Text in “About” is quoted from the Wikipedia article Lesser short-tailed gerbil (revision 1314870274), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: lead section excerpted verbatim, formatting removed. Quick facts, taxonomy and status: Wikidata Q307860 (CC0). Countries and pin: GBIF.org occurrence records (CC0 / CC BY 4.0).