Extinct Gerbil Species

[Ritzie/Admin]

As some of you know, I have also a website on recently extinct animals, including a forum.

There they told me that at least three gerbil species have recently become extinct.

:-/Gerbillus mauritaniae - Mauritanian Gerbil
Known only by the holotype collected in the 1940s, which is lost; may be synonym of G. nancillus.

:-/Gerbillus nancillus - Sudan Gerbil
Very few specimens collected and none after 1970. According to the IUCN full distribution and abuncance not known. That's why they list it as Data Deficient.

:-/Gerbillus jamesi - Jame's Gerbil
Single specimen collected in Tunisia in the 1950.

For more on recently extinct animals, you can visit my website:
extinct.petermaas.nl

[malabui]

:-( How could people let such cute creatures go extinct? The way people don't care when numbers of certain animals dwindle is so frustrating

[Ritzie/Admin]

Indeed, the 2004 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species lists 847 animals as extinct since 1500 AD. And every year this list grows! So the 2005 list will contain a lot more extinct animals, I'm very sure about that, sadly enough!