Gerbillurus paeba (A. Smith, 1836)

Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 501-755 : 547

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scientific name	Gerbillurus paeba (A. Smith, 1836)
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Gerbillurus paeba (A. Smith, 1836) View in CoL . Rept. Exped. Exploring Central Africa, app., p. 43.

TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa, Cape Province, Vryberg (as restricted by Roberts, 1951) .

DISTRIBUTION: South Africa (C, W, and N Cape Prov., SW Orange Free State, W and N Transvaal), W Mozambique, W Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia, and SW Angola.

SYNONYMS: broomi , calidus , coombsi, exilis , infernus, kalaharicus, leucanthus, mulleri , oralis , swakopensis, swalius , tenuis .

COMMENTS: Subgenus Progerbillurus . Meester et al. (1986) and Skinner and Smithers (1990) summarized South African taxonomy and distribution; Griffin (1990) reviewed Namibian populations. Based on analyses of chromosomal data, Qumsiyeh (1986) hypothesized that G. paeba and G. vallinus evolved from a common ancestor.