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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classMammalia
  4. ›orderRodentia
  5. ›familyMuridae
  6. ›genusAmmodillus
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Ammodile

Ammodillus imbellis (de Winton, 1898)

Also calledAmmodill-Rennmaus (deu) · Große Somali-Rennmaus (deu) · Somali-Rennmaus (deu) · piaskoskoczka somalijska (pol) · pískomil walo (ces) · somalianwalo (fin) · Аммодил (rus) · ソマリスナネズミ (jpn) · Walo (deu)

First described in: Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7 vol.1 p.249

Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF

discussion

Discussion: Reviewed by Roche and Petter (1968) and Pavlinov et al. (1990). Chromosomal traits documented by Capanna and Merani (1981).

Order Rodentia - Family Muridae

distribution

Distribution: Somalia (Roche and Petter, 1968) and E Ethiopia (Yalden et al., 1976).

Order Rodentia - Family Muridae

discussion

COMMENTS: Roche and Petter (1968) reviewed the species and mapped its distribution.

Order Rodentia - Family Muridae

biology_ecology

Habitat. Dry and semiarid savannas with bush and scrubs and coastal steppe.

Muridae

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Where it has been recorded

Recorded sightings

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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.

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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2438331.