Botta's gerbil
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D. bottai
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| Dipodillus bottai (Lataste, 1882)
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Botta's gerbil, Dipodillus bottai and also known as Gerbillus bottai, is a species of gerbil endemic to Sudan and possibly northern Kenya. According to IUCN, it was listed as Least Concern in 1996 until it was listed as Data Deficient in 2004. According to a 2013 book, it is known from a few specimens taken from four or five localities in a small area between the rivers White Nile and Blue Nile; its habitat is fields of vegetables and cereals.[1]
Aside from this information, nothing else is known about the species including its population and threats.
References
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<references />, or <references group="..." />- Granjon (2004). Gerbillus bottai. 2006. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. www.iucnredlist.org. Retrieved on 12 May 2006. Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is listed as data deficient
- 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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