Agag gerbil

Species of rodent

Agag gerbil

Conservation status

Data Deficient  (IUCN 3.1)[1]

Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Chordata
Class:  | Mammalia
Order:  | Rodentia
Family:  | Muridae
Genus:  | Gerbillus
Species:  |

G. agag

Binomial name
Gerbillus agag

Thomas, 1903

The Agag gerbil (Gerbillus agag) is distributed mainly in southern Mauritania to northern Nigeria and Sudan.

## References

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1. ^ Granjon, L. (2017). "Gerbillus agag". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T9102A22465443. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-2.RLTS.T9102A22465443.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.

* Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. pp. 894–1531 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.

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Extant species of subfamily Gerbillinae

* Kingdom: Animalia
* Phylum: Chordate
* Class: Mammalia
* Superorder: Euarchontoglires
* Order: Rodentia
* Family: Muridae

Tribes Ammodillini, Desmodilliscini, Gerbillurini, Taterillini

| Ammodillini|

| Ammodillus|

* Ammodile (A. imbellis)

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Desmodilliscini|

| Desmodilliscus|

* Pouched gerbil (D. braueri)

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Pachyuromys|

* Fat-tailed gerbil (P. duprasi)

Gerbillurini|

| Desmodillus|

* Cape short-eared gerbil (D. auricularis)

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Gerbilliscus|

* Cape gerbil (G. afra)
* Boehm's gerbil (G. boehmi)
* Highveld gerbil (G. brantsii)
* Guinean gerbil (G. guineae)
* Gorongoza gerbil (G. inclusus)
* Kemp's gerbil (G. kempi)
* Bushveld gerbil (G. leucogaster)
* black-tailed gerbil (G. nigricaudus)
* Phillips's gerbil (G. phillipsi)
* fringe-tailed gerbil (G. robustus)
* savanna gerbil (G. validus)

Gerbillurus|

* Hairy-footed gerbil (G. paeba)
* Namib brush-tailed gerbil (G. setzeri)
* dune hairy-footed gerbil (G. tytonis)
* bushy-tailed hairy-footed gerbil (G. vallinus)

Tatera|

* Indian gerbil (T. indica)

Taterillini|

| Taterillus|

* Robbins's tateril (T. arenarius)
* Congo gerbil (T. congicus)
* Emin's gerbil (T. emini)
* gracile tateril (T. gracilis)
* Harrington's gerbil (T. harringtoni)
* Lake Chad gerbil (T. lacustris)
* Petter's gerbil (T. petteri)
* Senegal gerbil (T. pygargus)
* Tranieri's tateril (T. tranieri)

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Tribe Gerbillini

| Gerbillina|

| Dipodillus|

* Botta's gerbil (D. bottai)
* North African gerbil (D. campestris)
* Wagner's gerbil (D. dasyurus)
* Harwood's gerbil (D. harwoodi)
* James's gerbil (D. jamesi)
* Lowe's gerbil (D. lowei)
* Mackilligin's gerbil (D. mackilligini)
* greater short-tailed gerbil (D. maghrebi)
* rupicolous gerbil (D. rupicola)
* lesser short-tailed gerbil (D. simoni)
* Somalian gerbil (D. somalicus)
* Khartoum gerbil (D. stigmonyx)
* Kerkennah Islands gerbil (D. zakariai)

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Gerbillus|

| Subgenus Hendecapleura:|

* Pleasant gerbil (G. amoenus)
* Brockman's gerbil (G. brockmani)
* black-tufted gerbil (G. famulus)
* Algerian gerbil (G. garamantis)
* Grobben's gerbil (G. grobbeni)
* pygmy gerbil (G. henleyi)
* Mauritanian gerbil (G. mauritaniae)
* Harrison's gerbil (G. mesopotamiae)
* Darfur gerbil (G. muriculus)
* Balochistan gerbil (G. nanus)
* large Aden gerbil (G. poecilops)
* principal gerbil (G. principulus)
* least gerbil (G. pusillus)
* sand gerbil (G. syrticus)
* vivacious gerbil (G. vivax)
* Gerbillus nanus and Gerbillus amoenus
* Waters's gerbil (G. watersi)

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Subgenus Gerbillus:|

* Berbera gerbil (G. acticola)
* Agag gerbil (G. agag)
* Anderson's gerbil (G. andersoni)
* swarthy gerbil (G. aquilus)
* Burton's gerbil (G. burtoni)
* Cheesman's gerbil (G. cheesmani)
* Dongola gerbil (G. dongolanus)
* Dunn's gerbil (G. dunni)
* Flower's gerbil (G. floweri)
* lesser Egyptian gerbil (G. gerbillus)
* Indian hairy-footed gerbil (G. gleadowi)
* western gerbil (G. hesperinus)
* Hoogstraal's gerbil (G. hoogstraali)
* Lataste's gerbil (G. latastei)
* Sudan gerbil (G. nancillus)
* Nigerian gerbil (G. nigeriae)
* occidental gerbil (G. occiduus)
* pale gerbil (G. perpallidus)
* cushioned gerbil (G. pulvinatus)
* greater Egyptian gerbil (G. pyramidum)
* Rosalinda gerbil (G. rosalinda)
* Tarabul's gerbil (G. tarabuli)

Microdillus|

* Somali pygmy gerbil (M. peeli)

Rhombomyina|

| Brachiones|

* Przewalski's gerbil (B. przewalskii)

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Meriones|

| Subgenus Meriones:|

* Tamarisk jird (M. tamariscinus)

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Subgenus Parameriones:|

* Persian jird (M. persicus)
* king jird (M. rex)

Subgenus Pallasiomys:|

* Arabian jird (M. arimalius)
* Cheng's jird (M. chengi)
* Sundevall's jird (M. crassus)
* Dahl's jird (M. dahli)
* Moroccan jird (M. grandis)
* Libyan jird (M. libycus)
* midday jird (M. meridianus)
* Buxton's jird (M. sacramenti)
* Shaw's jird (M. shawi)
* Tristram's jird (M. tristrami)
* Mongolian jird (M. unguiculatus)
* Vinogradov's jird (M. vinogradovi)
* Zarudny's jird (M. zarudnyi)

Subgenus Cheliones:|

* Indian desert jird (M. hurrianae)

Psammomys|

* Sand rat (P. obesus)
* thin sand rat (P. vexillaris)

Rhombomys|

* Great gerbil (R. opimus)

incertae sedis|

| Sekeetamys|

* Bushy-tailed jird (S. calurus)

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Taxon identifiers

Gerbillus agag|

* Wikidata: Q306828
* Wikispecies: Gerbillus agag
* ADW: Gerbillus_agag
* EoL: 1179694
* GBIF: 2437833
* iNaturalist: 44227
* IRMNG: 10225877
* ITIS: 632916
* IUCN: 9102
* MDD: 1002907
* MSW: 13001099
* Observation.org: 83534
* Paleobiology Database: 233550
* Xeno-canto: Gerbillus-agag

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