Gerbilliscus (Gerbilliscus) boehmi (Noack 1887)

[Gerbilliscus (Gerbilliscus)] boehmi (Noack 1887), Zool. Jahrb. Syst., 2: 241.

Type Locality: Dem. Rep. Congo, Katanga Province, Marungu, Qua Mpala (see Ansell, 1978, and Hill and Carter, 1941, for placement of type locality in S Dem. Rep. Congo; it has also been identified as N Zambia [G. M. Allen, 1939; Bates, 1988]).

Vernacular Names: Boehm's Gerbil.

Synonyms: Gerbilliscus (Gerbilliscus) fallax (Thomas and Schwann 1904); Gerbilliscus (Gerbilliscus) fraterculus (Thomas 1898); Gerbilliscus (Gerbilliscus) varia (Heller 1910) .

Distribution: E Angola (Crawford-Cabral, 1998, discussed the possible Angolan record), S Dem. Rep. Congo (Hatt, 1940 a), N Zambia (Ansell, 1978), Malawi (Ansell and Dowsett, 1988), Tanzania (Swynerton and Hayman, 1951), Kenya (Hollister, 1919), and Uganda (Delany, 1975).

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc) as Tatera boehmi .

Discussion: Subgenus Gerbilliscus . Reviewed by Davis (1975 a) and Pavlinov et al. (1990); northeast African population revised by Bates (1988). The double-grooved incisors and fringed, white-tipped tail of G. boehmi are unique among species of Gerbilliscus, and these traits prompted Thomas (1896) to propose Gerbilliscus as a subgenus of Tatera to contain boehmi .