Lesser short-tailed gerbil
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Dipodillus simoni

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.

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References

1. Lesser short-tailed gerbil Wikipedia article - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesser_short-tailed_gerbil
2. Lesser short-tailed gerbil on The IUCN Red List site - https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/9149/115518404

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