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Senegal gerbil
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Muridae
Genus:	Taterillus
Species:	T. pygargus
Binomial name
Taterillus pygargus (F. Cuvier, 1838)

The Senegal gerbil or Senegal tateril (Taterillus pygargus) is a species of rodent found in Niger, Senegal, possibly Gambia, possibly Mali, and possibly Mauritania. Its natural habitats are dry savanna, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, arable land, pastureland, and rural gardens.

References

1. Granjon, L. (2016). "Taterillus pygargus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T21528A22416675. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T21528A22416675.en. Retrieved 13 November 2021.

• Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. pp. 894–1531 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.

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