Kingdom Animalia Class Mammalia Superfamily Muroidea Scientific name Gerbillus simoni | Phylum Chordata Order Rodentia Family Muridae Rank Species | |
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The lesser short-tailed gerbil, Gerbillus simoni (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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