Gerbillurus Shortridge, 1942

James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 3), Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA: Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections, pp. 392-476 : 411

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scientific name	Gerbillurus Shortridge, 1942
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Gerbillurus Shortridge, 1942 . Ann. S. Afr. Mus., 36(1):27 — 100.

REVIEWED BY: C. B. Robbins (CBR); C. J. Terry (CJT).

COMMENT: Gerbillurus was considered a subgenus of Gerbillus by Shortridge, 1942, Ann. S. Afr. Mus., 36(1):27 — 100, and Ellerman et al., 1953, Southern Afr. Mammals ... A Reclassification, Trustees Brit. Mus. Nat. Hist., 363 pp. However, Roberts, 1951, The Mammals of South Africa, 700 pp., Lundholm, 1955, Ann. Transvaal Mus., 22:279-303, Schütter, 1976, Diss. Abstr. Int., 37(6), Davis, 1975, Part 6.4:5, and Swanepoel et al., 1980, Ann. Transvaal Mus., 32(7): 175, considered it a distinct genus. Davis, 1975, Part 6.4:5, also suggested that paeba and vallinus may not be congeneric. Subfamily Gerbillinae ; see comment under Cricetidae .

References

Roberts, A. 1951. The mammals of South Africa. Trustees of The mammals of South Africa book fund, Johannesburg, 700 pp.

Shortridge, G. C. 1942. Field notes on the first and second expeditions to the Cape Museum's mammal survey of the Cape Province; with descriptions of some new subgenera and subspecies. Annals of the South African Museum, 36: 27 - 100.

Swanepoel, P., R. H. N. Smithers, and I. L. Rautenbach. 1980. A checklist and numbering system of the extant mammals of the Southern African Subregion. Annals of the Transvaal Museum, 32: 155 - 196.