| Wagner's gerbil | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Muridae |
| Subfamily: | Gerbillinae |
| Genus: | Dipodillus |
| Species: | D. dasyurus |
| Binomial name | |
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Dipodillus dasyurus (Wagner, 1842) |
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Wagner's gerbil, Dipodillus dasyurus, is distributed mainly in the Nile Delta, the Sinai, Syria, Iraq and the Arabian Peninsula. It also referred to as the rough-tailed dipodil or Wadi Hof gerbil. They are solo, burrowing mammals that are nocturnally active.