Gerbillus pusillus Peters, 1878 . Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1879:201 [1878].

TYPE LOCALITY: Kenya, Ndi and Kitui .

DISTRIBUTION: Kenya, Ethiopia, and S Sudan (Dieterlen and Nikolaus, 1985).

COMMENTS: Petter (1975b) and Lay (1983) recognized this species.