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GERBILLINAE
Gerbillinae, otherwise known as the gerbils, jirds, and relatives, is a large Old World murid subfamily. This subfamily is one of the most well-defined in Muroidea. Its members have much in common; most being diurnal, saltatorial desert rodents. There are 103 gerbilline species in 16 genera. (Musser and Carleton, 2005)

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Muridae
Subfamily: Gerbillinae

Members of the subfamily of Gerbillinae include:

Genus Ammodilus (ammodile and walo)
Genus Brachiones (Przewalski's gerbil)
Genus Desmodilliscus (pouched gerbil)


Genus Desmodilus (Cape short-eared gerbil)
Genus Dipodilus (dipodils)


Genus Gerbiliscus (African gerbils)


Genus Gerbilurus (hairy-footed gerbils)
Genus Gerbilus (gerbils)


Genus Meriones (jirds)
Genus Microdilus (Somali pygmy gerbil)


Genus Pachyuromys (fat-tailed gerbil)
Genus Psammomys (fat sand rats)


Genus Rhombomys (great gerbil)
Genus Sekeetamys (bushy-tailed jird)
Genus Tatera (large naked-soled gerbils)
Genus Taterillus (small naked-soled gerbils)



There is a Mongolian species of gerbil (subfamily Gerbillinae) known as the Clawed Jird, which has a latin name of: Meriones unguiculatus.

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