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 (Taterona) leucogaster (Peters 1852) [Gerbilliscus (Taterona)] leucogaster ( Peters 1852 ) , Bericht Verhandl. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin , 17: 274 . Type Locality: Mozambique , north of Zambezi River, Mesuril (as restricted by Davis, 1949:1004 ). Vernacular Names: Bushveld Gerbil . Synonyms: Gerbilliscus (Taterona) angolae ( Wroughton 1906 ) ; Gerbilliscus (Taterona) bechuanae ( Wroughton 1906 ) ; Gerbilliscus (Taterona) beirae ( Roberts 1951 ) ; Gerbilliscus (Taterona) beirensis ( Roberts 1929 ) ; Gerbilliscus (Taterona) kaokoensis Lehmann 1955 ; Gerbilliscus (Taterona) limpopoensis ( Roberts 1929 ) ; Gerbilliscus (Taterona) littoralis ( Roberts 1929 ) ; Gerbilliscus (Taterona) lobengulae (De Winton 1898) ; Gerbilliscus (Taterona) mashonae ( Wroughton 1906 ) ; Gerbilliscus (Taterona) mitchelli ( Roberts 1929 ) ; Gerbilliscus (Taterona) ndolae (Kershaw 1922) ; Gerbilliscus (Taterona) nigrotibialis ( Monard 1933 ) ; Gerbilliscus (Taterona) nyasae ( Wroughton 1906 ) ; Gerbilliscus (Taterona) panja ( Wroughton 1906 ) ; Gerbilliscus (Taterona) pestis ( Roberts 1929 ) ; Gerbilliscus (Taterona) pretoriae ( Roberts 1929 ) ; Gerbilliscus (Taterona) salsa ( Wroughton 1906 ) ; Gerbilliscus (Taterona) schinzi (Noack 1889) ; Gerbilliscus (Taterona) shirensis ( Wroughton 1906 ) ; Gerbilliscus (Taterona) stellae ( Wroughton 1906 ) ; Gerbilliscus (Taterona) tenuis ( Peters 1852 ) ; Gerbilliscus (Taterona) tzaneenensis ( Roberts 1929 ) ; Gerbilliscus (Taterona) waterbergensis ( Roberts 1938 ) ; Gerbilliscus (Taterona) zuluensis ( Roberts 1931 ) . Distribution: N and W South Africa (see Perrin, 1997 f ; Skinner and Smithers, 1990 ; Taylor,F 1998), Mozambique (including islands in the Bazaruto Arch. off the coast of S Mozambique ; Downs and Wirminghaus [1997] , Smithers and Lobao Tello, 1976 ), Zimbabwe ( Smithers and Wilson, 1979 ), Botswana , Namibia ( Griffin, 1990 ), Malawi ( Denys et al., 1999 ), Zambia ( Ansell, 1978 ), Angola ( Crawford-Cabral, 1998 ), SW Tanzania ( Davis, 1975 a ), and S Dem. Rep. Congo ( Davis, 1975 a ). Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc) as Tatera leucogaster . Discussion: Subgenus Taterona . Taxonomy and distribution summarized by Meester et al. (1986) , who included this species in the G. robustus group. Nongeographic variation in Botswana sample analyzed by Swanepoel et al. (1979) . Discriminant function analyses contrasting Angolan G. validus and G. leucogaster documented by Crawford-Cabral and Pacheco (1991) . Southern African Subregion populations reviewed by Perrin (1997 f ) and Skinner and Smithers (1990) .