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
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book chapter
0-8018-8221-4
10.5281/zenodo.7316535
Dipodillus (Dipodillus) maghrebi
Schlitter and Setzer 1972
Dipodillus (Dipodillus) maghrebi
Schlitter and Setzer 1972
,
Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 84: 387
.
Type Locality:
Morocco
, Fes Province,
15 km
WSW Taounate (see
Lay, 1983
, and map in
Aulagnier and Thevenot, 1986
).
Vernacular Names:
Maghreb Dipodil
.
Distribution:
Recorded only from the Fes region (between the coast and tip of Middle Atlas Mtns) in N
Morocco
where it is abundant (
Aulagnier et al., 1993
).
Conservation:
IUCN
– Vulnerable as
Gerbillus maghrebi
.
Discussion:
Subgenus
Dipodillus
. A distinctive Moroccan endemic unrelated to
D. simoni
as
Schlitter and Setzer (1972)
proposed, but instead phylogenetically linked to
D. campestris
according to
Lay (1983)
.
Aulagnier et al. (1993)
documented detailed cranial and dental comparisons between samples of
D. maghrebi
and those of sympatric
D. campestris
. Reviewed by
Pavlinov et al. (1990)
.