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<emphasis id="7958D431441D5CC574BE75843B7135A8" italics="true" pageNumber="1221">Gerbillurus</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="E729DFF1111F2274BA0FE0B90EC2E128" italics="true" pageNumber="1221">Gerbillurus</emphasis>
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,
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Ann. S. Afr.
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.
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<emphasis id="B4AE0B2FD8F98C120813F4F928FC4662" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1221">Type Species:</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="CEAB480FDABF646BC2E38E6EA0040337" italics="true" pageNumber="1221">Gerbillus vallinus</emphasis>
Thomas 1918
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<emphasis id="46BE4F14B2E0D475ADB4034613C744FF" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1221">Species and subspecies:</emphasis>
4 species in 3 subgenera:
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Subgenus
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<emphasis id="54F796AA293C84830FB20528D39C0009" italics="true" pageNumber="1221">Gerbillurus (Gerbillurus)</emphasis>
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Subgenus
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<emphasis id="A79D12911954C426844F129A8CC78A1E" italics="true" pageNumber="1221">Gerbillurus (Paratatera)</emphasis>
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Subgenus
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<emphasis id="069F40256B5D917D543E1910866684D2" italics="true" pageNumber="1221">Gerbillurus (Progerbillurus)</emphasis>
Pavlinov 1982
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Species
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<emphasis id="7BFFA26BD718032821F5E1B6A4E60E2F" italics="true" pageNumber="1221">Gerbillurus (Progerbillurus) paeba</emphasis>
(A. Smith 1836)
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Species
<taxonomicName id="B133116312A5BD2C3D1A1C053F87FCD6" authority="Schlitter 1973" authorityName="Schlitter" authorityYear="1973" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Gerbillurus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="1221" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="setzeri" subGenus="Gerbillurus">
<emphasis id="E4B5316C742719FC3E0C6059B087470B" italics="true" pageNumber="1221">Gerbillurus (Gerbillurus) setzeri</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="035400CB447582F49BD7344F6FFDF47E" author="Schlitter, D. A. &amp; H. W. Setzer" refId="ref319843" refString="Schlitter, D. A., and H. W. Setzer. 1973. New rodents (Mammalia: Cricetidae, Muridae) from Iran and Pakistan. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 86: 163 - 174." year="1973">Schlitter 1973</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
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Species
<taxonomicName id="DFF7FE8E8891081B0CCABEBDE5485244" authority="Bauer and Niethammer 1959" authorityName="Bauer and Niethammer" authorityYear="1959" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Gerbillurus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="1221" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="tytonis" subGenus="Paratatera">
<emphasis id="16A315D996EC0D3052530073973DEFA6" italics="true" pageNumber="1221">Gerbillurus (Paratatera) tytonis</emphasis>
Bauer and
<bibRefCitation id="04DEBF61DA6D55BF51A2202737744E1B" author="Niethammer, J." refId="ref259398" refString="Niethammer, J. 1959. Die nordafrikanischen Unterarten des Gartenschlafers (Eliomys quercinus). Zeitschrift fur Saugetierkunde, 24: 35 - 45." year="1959">Niethammer 1959</bibRefCitation>
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<paragraph id="39AF4FF2F4369AF142A15B1E7F5253BB" pageNumber="1221">
Species
<taxonomicName id="4E0C80273F25D133499CC361511DC4EC" authority="(Thomas 1918)" baseAuthorityName="Thomas" baseAuthorityYear="1918" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Gerbillurus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="1221" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="vallinus" subGenus="Gerbillurus">
<emphasis id="F046AD517B1399037ED6A373488E6467" italics="true" pageNumber="1221">Gerbillurus (Gerbillurus) vallinus</emphasis>
(Thomas 1918)
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<emphasis id="2741EED757538511481E92B6483385E2" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1221">Discussion:</emphasis>
Tribe
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, Subtribe
<taxonomicName id="FDF83B5CE42AAD8DF6D46FA2F67132F3" authorityName="Pavlinov" authorityYear="1982" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="subTribe" subTribe="Gerbillurina">Gerbillurina</taxonomicName>
. Sometimes included in
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<emphasis id="C423E4B0326CDA049776354821794D77" italics="true" pageNumber="1221">Gerbillus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(see references in
<bibRefCitation id="1BAABD1E993B91FD5DDDC30E5E5B81F6" author="Schlitter, D. A. &amp; I. L. Rautenbach &amp; C. G. Coetzee" refId="ref320042" refString="Schlitter, D. A., I. L. Rautenbach, and C. G. Coetzee. 1984. Karyotypes of southern African gerbils, genus Gerbillurus Shortridge, 1942 (Rodentia: Cricetidae). Annals of Carnegie Museum, 53: 549 - 557." year="1984">Schlitter et al., 1984</bibRefCitation>
), but concordance of morphological, allozymic, and chromosomal data supports the monophyly of
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<emphasis id="CC62FDDA3AC04053D5307436D2DBFE15" italics="true" pageNumber="1221">Gerbillurus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and indicates its close relationship to the
<taxonomicName id="73736F32C7EC15CE6FBA00F0EFA24578" baseAuthorityName="Cretzschmar" baseAuthorityYear="1826" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Tatera" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="robusta">
<emphasis id="82F9DA3CA8027CE7D26B2EE52AA2107D" italics="true" pageNumber="1221">robusta</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
group of
<taxonomicName id="436A46254A041228DA1FDBBD95F28BB5" authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1910" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Taterillus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="50540CE4A9AE22B13CC38AD424D756C8" italics="true" pageNumber="1221">Taterillus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(
<bibRefCitation id="0BDFFF737FD6E7ABE7B957E7BB5B0EDC" author="Qumsiyeh, M. B. &amp; M. J. Hamilton &amp; D. A. Schlitter" refId="ref295175" refString="Qumsiyeh, M. B., M. J. Hamilton, and D. A. Schlitter. 1987. Problems in using Robertsonian rearrangements in determining monophyly: Examples from the genera Tatera and Gerbillurus. Cytogenetics and Cell Genetics, 44: 198 - 208." year="1987">Qumsiyeh et al., 1987</bibRefCitation>
, and references therein). Pavlinov (1987),
<bibRefCitation id="D8F14DA488A6A680BCC7767AAA5512D7" author="Pavlinov, I. Ya. &amp; Yu. A. Dubrovsky &amp; O. L. Rossolimo &amp; E. G. Potapova" refId="ref278052" refString="Pavlinov, I. Ya., Yu. A. Dubrovsky, O. L. Rossolimo, and E. G. Potapova. 1990. [Gerbils of the world.] Nauka, Moscow, 368 pp. (in Russian)." year="1990">Pavlinov et al. (1990)</bibRefCitation>
, and Pavlinov (2001), however, considered
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<emphasis id="D52174AF0D6CC820100645CA5DBC1BBE" italics="true" pageNumber="1221">Gerbillurus</emphasis>
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to be a sister-species of
<taxonomicName id="FD1C2D763F4725E2425B304892FB935C" authorityName="Thomas and Schwann" authorityYear="1904" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Desmodillus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="60D3A89EC88E7282D9BEA5A0DCCB994E" italics="true" pageNumber="1221">Desmodillus</emphasis>
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and to form a monophyletic tribe. Comparisons in thermal parameters, macro-and micro-environments, and interspecific aggression among four sympatric species of
<taxonomicName id="E9577FAAF62380C756C3F7200BC85302" authorityName="Shortridge" authorityYear="1942" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Gerbillurus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="C92FFFAD7F351A2A0F02E24C1B269EDF" italics="true" pageNumber="1221">Gerbillurus</emphasis>
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were documented by
<bibRefCitation id="BF434662051C8275FC7AACA92A311F1E" author="Downs, C. T. &amp; M. R. Perrin" refId="ref88366" refString="Downs, C. T., and M. R. Perrin. 1989. An investigation of the macro- and micro-environments of four Gerbillurus species. Cimbebasia, 11: 41 - 54." year="1989">Downs and Perrin (1989</bibRefCitation>
, 1990) and
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in context of adaptive significance and phylogenetic relationships. Divergence in acoustic repertoire, ultrasonic vocalizations and associated behavior, and general behavior patterns among four species of
<taxonomicName id="8754D325C313BB65719828214E575FA2" authorityName="Shortridge" authorityYear="1942" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Gerbillurus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="38700F541618CFB2913E2DE3FE54F936" italics="true" pageNumber="1221">Gerbillurus</emphasis>
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, one
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<emphasis id="E7CFF73255F817BAA2E56DA7DEABCF23" italics="true" pageNumber="1221">Gerbilliscus</emphasis>
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, and
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<emphasis id="E48D7371AA3587F0F9424E6596D6AF43" italics="true" pageNumber="1221">Desmodillus</emphasis>
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in different combinations provided by
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,
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) and
<bibRefCitation id="8B01EC483ABD67F367E08E57C4FEFBDC" author="Dempster, E. R. &amp; R. Dempster &amp; M. R. Perrin" refId="ref81040" refString="Dempster, E. R., R. Dempster, and M. R. Perrin. 1991. Behaviour associated with ultrasonic vocalizations in six gerbilline rodent species. Ethology, 88: 11 - 19." year="1991">Dempster et al. (1991</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation id="99B1F9ACF4582994DC38A802301E1A15" author="Dempster, E. R. &amp; R. Dempster &amp; M. R. Perrin" refId="ref81079" refString="Dempster, E. R., R. Dempster, and M. R. Perrin. 1992. A comparative study of the behaviour of six taxa of male and female gerbils (Rodentia) in intra- and interspecific encounters. Ethology, 91: 25 - 45." year="1992">1992</bibRefCitation>
,
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). Standard karyotypic data reported by
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, a hypothesis of phylogenetic relationships among the four species, derived from chromosomal data, was advanced by Qumsiyeh et al. (1991), and chromosomal comparisons among southern African species of
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<emphasis id="EDC17AE40E1E8D514CD29DB808447C6D" italics="true" pageNumber="1221">Gerbillurus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="9829FEA4FD2B6A421D4EE7C49FF74D27" authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1897" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Gerbilliscus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="319120F84ED788E5C5E0B8E67676BFB7" italics="true" pageNumber="1221">Gerbilliscus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, and
<taxonomicName id="3968062B431572D6CD7B7E1CB998BD4A" authorityName="Thomas and Schwann" authorityYear="1904" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Desmodillus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="308F8EEAE20A1D66E7587178997F2812" italics="true" pageNumber="1221">Desmodillus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
was documented by Qumsiyeh (1986). Reviewed by
<bibRefCitation id="E0F2BAFB0070F66E7FEE6DEBD1324C9B" author="Davis, D. H. S." refId="ref74653" refString="Davis, D. H. S. 1975 a. Genera Tatera and Gerbillurus. Part 6.4. Pp. 1 - 7, in The mammals of Africa: An identification manual (J. Meester, and H. W. Setzer, eds.) [issued 10 Dec 1975]. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C., not continuously paginated." year="1975">
Davis (1975
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)
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.
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<emphasis id="E7106F297799081F2E5373225887BA85" italics="true" pageNumber="1221">Gerbillurus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is represented by samples from the late Pliocene of
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(
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) and
<collectingCountry id="A578D5ABA744F4164378FE2187706ADE" name="South Africa">South Africa</collectingCountry>
, and Holocene of East Africa (Denys, 1999).
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