Fat-tailed gerbil

Fat-tailed gerbil
A pair of duprasi gerbils
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Muridae
Genus: Pachyuromys
Lataste, 1880
Species:
P. duprasi
Binomial name
Pachyuromys duprasi
Lataste, 1880

The fat-tailed gerbil (Pachyuromys duprasi), also called the duprasi gerbil or doop, is a rodent belonging to the subfamily Gerbillinae. It is only species in the genus Pachyuromys. They are frequently kept as pets.

Other common English names are: fat-tailed jird, fat-tailed rat, and beer mat gerbil.[2][3]

  1. ^ Granjon, L. (2016). "Pachyuromys duprasi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T15865A22411191. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T15865A22411191.en. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
  2. ^ "The Fat tail Gerbil ~ Pachyuromys Duprasis | eGerbil". www.egerbil.com. Retrieved 2022-08-25.
  3. ^ Felt, Stephen A.; Merrill, Nancy L.; Guirguis, Fady I.; Hussein, Hussein I. (2012-01-01), Suckow, Mark A.; Stevens, Karla A.; Wilson, Ronald P. (eds.), "Chapter 53 - Egyptian Fat-Tailed Jird", The Laboratory Rabbit, Guinea Pig, Hamster, and Other Rodents, American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine, Boston: Academic Press, pp. 1157–1170, doi:10.1016/b978-0-12-380920-9.00053-5, ISBN 978-0-12-380920-9, retrieved 2022-08-25