Four-toed jerboa | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Dipodidae |
Genus: | Scarturus Gloger, 1841 |
Species: | S. tetradactylus
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Binomial name | |
Scarturus tetradactylus (Lichtenstein, 1823)
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Geographic range |
The four-toed jerboa (Scarturus tetradactylus) is a rodent of the family Dipodidae and genus Scarturus that has four digits. Four-toed jerboas are native to Egypt and Libya. They live in coastal salt marshes and dry deserts.