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| Fat-tailed gerbil | |
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| A pair of duprasi gerbils | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Muridae |
| Genus: | Pachyuromys Lataste, 1880 |
| Species: | P. duprasi
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| Binomial name | |
| Pachyuromys duprasi Lataste, 1880
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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]
- ^ 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.
- ^ "The Fat tail Gerbil ~ Pachyuromys Duprasis | eGerbil". www.egerbil.com. Retrieved 2022-08-25.
- ^ 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