Order Rodentia - Family Muridae Author Wilson, Don E. Author Reeder, DeeAnn text 2005 The Johns Hopkins University Press Baltimore Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2 1189 1531 book chapter 0-8018-8221-4 10.5281/zenodo.7316535 Gerbilliscus (Gerbilliscus) boehmi (Noack 1887) [Gerbilliscus (Gerbilliscus)] boehmi ( Noack 1887 ) , Zool. Jahrb. Syst., 2: 241 . Type Locality: Dem. Rep. Congo, Katanga Province, Marungu, Qua Mpala (see Ansell, 1978 , and Hill and Carter, 1941 , for placement of type locality in S Dem. Rep. Congo; it has also been identified as N Zambia [G. M. Allen, 1939 ; Bates, 1988 ]). Vernacular Names: Boehm's Gerbil . Synonyms: Gerbilliscus (Gerbilliscus) fallax ( Thomas and Schwann 1904 ) ; Gerbilliscus (Gerbilliscus) fraterculus (Thomas 1898) ; Gerbilliscus (Gerbilliscus) varia (Heller 1910) . Distribution: E Angola ( Crawford-Cabral, 1998 , discussed the possible Angolan record), S Dem. Rep. Congo ( Hatt, 1940 a ), N Zambia ( Ansell, 1978 ), Malawi ( Ansell and Dowsett, 1988 ), Tanzania (Swynerton and Hayman, 1951), Kenya ( Hollister, 1919 ), and Uganda ( Delany, 1975 ). Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc) as Tatera boehmi . Discussion: Subgenus Gerbilliscus . Reviewed by Davis (1975 a ) and Pavlinov et al. (1990) ; northeast African population revised by Bates (1988) . The double-grooved incisors and fringed, white-tipped tail of G. boehmi are unique among species of Gerbilliscus , and these traits prompted Thomas (1896) to propose Gerbilliscus as a subgenus of Tatera to contain boehmi .