Gerbillus Desmarest 1804

• Main Authors: James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman, James W. Koeppl
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections 1982
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Mammalia; Rodentia; Cricetidae; Gerbillus; Osborn; DML
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/7206458; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7206458

Gerbillus Desmarest, 1804. Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat. Paris, 1:24, Tabl. Meth., p. 22. REVIEWED BY: E. L. Cockrum (ELC); D. L. Harrison (DLH); D. M. Lay (DML); C. B. Robbins (CBR). COMMENT: Includes Monodia; formerly included Gerbillurus and Microdillus; see Petter, 1975, Part 6.3:11, 12, Davis, 1975, Part 6.4:5, Schlitter, 1976, Unpubl. Ph.D. Dissertation Univ. Maryland, 558 pp., and Schlitter, 1976, Diss. Abstr. Int., 37(6). Schlitter, in both 1976 treatments, included Dipodillus as a subgenus of Gerbillus. Petter, 1959, Mammalia, 23:308, Petter, 1975, Part 6.3:2, and Cockrum et al., 1976, Mammalia, 40:313-326, considered Dipodillus a distinct genus. Wassif, 1956, Ain Shams Sci. Bull., No. 1:173 -194 and Osborn and Helmy, 1980, Fieldiana Zool., n.s., 5: 1-579, regarded Dipodillus as a distinct genus, but in a different sense from Petter, 1959, and Cockrum et al., 1976, who are followed here; revision and clear definition of Hendecapleura, Gerbillus, and Dipodillus (sensu Osborn and Helmy, 1980) is needed; see also Ellerman, 1941:500-504. If Dipodillus is considered a distinct genus then the other naked-footed forms of Gerbillus should also be considered a distinct genus; the name Hendecapleura is available (ELC). This genus and related forms are in need of revision. Subfamily Gerbillinae; see comment under Cricetidae. ISIS NUMBER: 5301410008091000000. Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 3), pp. 392-476 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 412, DOI:10.5281/zenodo.7353031