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Any of the relatively small placental mammals that constitute the order Rodentia, having constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing. (Source: MGH)

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Hughes JJ, Ward D, Perrin MR 1994. Predation risk and competition affect habitat selection and activity of Namib Desert gerbils. Ecology 75 (5) 1397–1405

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Fielden LJ, Waggoner JP, Perrin MR, Hickman GC 1990. Thermoregulation in the Namib Desert golden mole, Eremitalpa granti namibensis (Chrysochloridae). Journal of Arid Environments 18 221-237

Website link:https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0140196318308565

Buffenstein R 1984. Aspects of the energetics and renal physiology of some African arid-adapted rodents.

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Aspects of the energetics and renal physiology of some African arid_adapted rodents_Buffenstein_Thesis.pdf	4.33 MB

Witkowski PT, Kallies R, Hoveka J, Auste B, Ithete NL, Soltys K, Szemes T, Drosten C, Preiser W, Klempa B, Mfune JKE, Kruger DH 2015. Novel Arenavirus isolates from Namaqua Rock Mice, Namibia, southern Africa. Emerging Infectious Diseases 21 (7) 1213-1216

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Cassola F, Child MF 2016. Graphiurus microtis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T9485A22221518.

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Graphiurus microtis.pdf	2.36 MB

Website link:https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T9485A22221518.en

Child MF 2016. Pedetes capensis (errata version published in 2017). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T16467A115133584.

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Pedetes capensis.pdf	2.06 MB

Website link:https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T16467A22240444.en

Child MF, Maree S 2016. Fukomys damarensis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T5753A22185003.

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Fukomys damarensis.pdf	2.23 MB

Website link:https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/5753/22185003

Cassola F 2016. Hystrix africaeaustralis (errata version published in 2017). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T10748A115099085.

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Hystrix africaeaustralis.pdf	2.07 MB

Website link:https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/10748/115099085

Dempster ER, Perrin MR, Downs CT, Griffin M 1998. Gerbillurus setzeri. 1-4

Website link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/3504394

Downs CT, Perrin MR 1989. An investigation of the macro and micro-environments of four Gerbillurus species. Cimbebasia 11 41-54

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Wilson B, Palmer G, Relton C 2016. A conservation assessment of Desmodillus auricularis. The Red List of Mammals of South Africa, Swaziland and Lesotho

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du Plessis J, Swanepoel LH, McDonough M, Schoeman C 2016. A conservation assessment of Gerbilliscus leucogaster. The Red List of Mammals of South Africa, Swaziland and Lesotho

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A conservation assessment of Gerbilliscus leucogaster.pdf	1.63 MB

Muteka SP, Chimimba CT, Bastos ADS, Bennett NC 2020. Photoperiodic effects on the male gonads of the Namibian gerbil, Gerbilliscus cf. leucogaster from central Namibia. Mammalian Biology 100 165–171

Website link:https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42991-020-00008-y

Muteka SP, Chimimba CT, Bastos ADS, Bennett NC 2018. The reproductive pattern of the Gerbilliscus cf. leucogaster (Rodentia: Muridae) from Namibia. Canadian Journal of Zoology 97 (1)

Website link:https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/cjz-2018-0090?mobileUi=0

Shaanika HN 2020. Assessing the likelihood that burrowing gerbils in the central Namib are ecological engineers.

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Thomas O 1882. On a small collection of rodents from South-western Africa. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1882 265-267

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Child MF, Power RJ, Monadjem A 2016. A conservation assessment of Thallomys nigricauda. The Red List of Mammals of South Africa, Swaziland and Lesotho

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A conservation assessment of Thallomys nigricauda.pdf	1.08 MB

Linzey A, MacFadyen D, Russo IM, Taylor P, Bryja J 2016. A conservation assessment of Aethomys chrysophilus. The Red List of Mammals of South Africa, Swaziland and Lesotho

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A conservation assessment of Aethomys chrysophilus.pdf	1.11 MB

Cassola F 2016. Malacothrix typica. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T12712A115105728. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species

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Schoeman C, Relton C, Harvey J, Monadjem A 2016. A conservation assessment of Steatomys pratensis. The Red List of Mammals of South Africa, Swaziland and Lesotho

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A conservation assessment of Steatomys pratensis.pdf	1.52 MB

Website link:https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/44923-Steatomys-pratensis

MacFadyen D, Relton C, Child MF 2016. A conservation assessment of Saccostomus campestris. The Red List of Mammals of South Africa, Swaziland and Lesotho

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A conservation assessment of Saccostomus campestris.pdf	1.59 MB

Website link:https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/44509-Saccostomus-campestris

Wilson B, Bragg C, Relton C 2016. A conservation assessment of Petromyscus collinus. The Red List of Mammals of South Africa, Swaziland and Lesotho

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A conservation assessment of Petromyscus collinus.pdf	1.4 MB

Schradin C, Pillay N, Kerley GIH, Child MF 2016. A conservation assessment of Parotomys littledale. The Red List of Mammals of South Africa, Swaziland and Lesotho

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A conservation assessment of Parotomys.pdf	1.37 MB

Watson J, Britton-Davidian J, Monadjem A, Relton C 2016. A conservation assessment of Mus indutus. The Red List of Mammals of South Africa, Swaziland and Lesotho

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A conservation assessment of Mus indutus.pdf	1.33 MB

du Plessis J, Russo IM, Child MF 2016. A conservation assessment of Mastomys spp. The Red List of Mammals of South Africa, Swaziland and Lesotho

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A conservation assessment of Mastomys spp.pdf	3.07 MB

Russo I-R, MacFadyen D, Taylor P, Child MF 2016. A conservation assessment of Micaelamys namaquensis. The Red List of Mammals of South Africa, Swaziland and Lesotho

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Eiseb SJ, Taylor PJ, Zeller U, Denys C, Nicolas V 2020. Rapid peripatric speciation linked with drainage evolution in a rare African rodent, Mastomys shortridgei (Rodentia: Muridae). Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 2020

Website link:https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jzs.12441

Perrin MR, Boyer DC 1996. Habitat selection by the gerbils Gerbillurus paeba and G. tytonis in the Namib Desert dunes. South African Journal of Wildlife Research 26 (3) 71-76

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Habitat selection by the gerbils Gerbillurus paeba and G tytonis in the Namib Desert dunes.pdf	918.18 KB

Pickford M 2018. Tufamyidae, a new family of hystricognath rodents from the Palaeogene and Neogene of the Sperrgebiet, Namibia. Communications of the Geological Survey of Namibia 19 71-109

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Tufamyidae_a new family of hystricognath rodents from the Palaeogene and Neogene of the Sperrgebiet.pdf	4.23 MB

Pickford M 2018. Characterising the zegdoumyid rodent Tsaukhaebmys from the Ypresian/Lutetian of Black Crow, Namibia. Communications of the Geological Survey of Namibia 19 66-70

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Characterising the zegdoumyid rodent Tsaukhaebmys from the YpresianLutetian of Black Crow.pdf	206.73 KB

Pickford M 2018. New Zegdoumyidae (Rodentia, Mammalia) from the Middle Eocene of Black Crow, Namibia: taxonomy, dental formula. Communications of the Geological Survey of Namibia 18 48- 63

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New Zegdoumyidae from the Middle Eocene of Black Crow_Namibia taxonomy_dental formula.pdf	1.18 MB

Mein P, Pickford M 2018. Reithroparamyine rodent from the Eocene of Namibia. Communications of the Geological Survey of Namibia 18 38-47

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Reithroparamyine rodent from the Eocene of Namibia.pdf	756.4 KB

Mein P, Pickford M, Senut B 2004. Late Miocene micromammals from the Harasib karst deposits, Namibia. Part 2b - Cricetomyidae, Dendromuridae and Muridae, with an addendum on the Myocricetodontinae. Communications of the Geological Survey of Namibia 13 43-61

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Late Miocene micromammals from the Harasib karst deposits_Namibia_Part 2b.pdf	2.73 MB

Mein P, Pickford M 2008. Early Miocene Rodentia from the Northern Sperrgebiet, Namibia. Memoir of the Geological Survey of Namibia 20 235-290

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Early Miocene Rodentia from the Northern Sperrgebiet.pdf	2.71 MB

Mein P, Pickford M 2003. Rodentia (other than Pedetidae) from the Orange River deposits, Namibia. Memoir of the Geological Survey of Namibia 19 147-160

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Rodentia from the Orange River deposits.pdf	753.94 KB

Edwards S 2009. Phylogeographic variation of the Karoo Bush Rat, Otomys unisulcatus: a molecular and morphological perspective.

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Phylogeographic variation of the Karoo Bush Rat_Otomys unisulcatus.pdf	2.73 MB

Demeter A, Hutterer R 1986. Small mammals from Mt. Meru and its environs (Northern Tanzania). Cimbebasia 8 (24) 200-207

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Small mammals from Mt Meru and its environs_Northern Tanzania.pdf	4.69 MB

Eiseb SJ 2015. Systematics and biogeography of the genus Mastomys (Rodentia: Muridae) occurring in Namibia and adjacent countries.

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Systematics and biogeography of the genus Mastomys.pdf	7.47 MB

Finn KT, Thorley J, Bensch HM, Zöttl M 2022. Subterranean life-style does not limit long distance dispersal in African mole-rats. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 10

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Subterranean life_style does not limit long distance dispersal in African mole_rats.pdf	334.65 KB

Hazell RWA, Bennett NC, Jarvis JUM, Griffin M 2000. Adult dispersal in the co-operatively breeding Damaraland mole-rat (Cryptomys damarensis): a case study from the Waterberg region of Namibia. Journal of Zoology 252 (1) 19-25

Website link:https://zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-7998.2000.tb00816.x

Bento da Costa L, Senut B 2022. Skeleton of early miocene Bathyergoides neotertiarius Stromer, 1923 (Rodentia, Mammalia) from Namibia: behavioural implication. Geodiversitas 44 (10) 291-322

Website link:https://bioone.org/journals/geodiversitas/volume-44/issue-10/geodiversitas2022v44a10/Skeleton-of-Early-Miocene-Bathyergoides-neotertiarius-Stromer-1923-Rodentia-Mammalia/10.5252/geodiversitas2022v44a10.short

Finn KT, Thorley J, Bensch HM, Zöttl M 2022. Subterranean life-style does not limit long distance dispersal in African mole-rats. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 10

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Subterranean life_style does not limit long distance dispersal in African mole_rats_0.pdf	334.65 KB

Thorley J, Bensch HM, Finn K, Clutton-Brock T, Zöttl M 2023. Damaraland mole-rats do not rely on helpers for reproduction or survival. Evolution Letters 7 (4) 203-215

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Lovegrove BG, Heldmaier G, Knight M 1991. Seasonal and circadian energetic patterns in an arboreal rodent, Thallomys paedulcus, and a burrow-dwelling rodent, Aethomys namaquensis, from the Kalahari Desert. Journal of Thermal Biology 16 (4) 199-209

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Seasonal and circadian energetic patterns in an arboreal rodent.pdf	583.91 KB

Website link:https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/030645659190026X

Coleman JC, Downs CT 2010. Daily rhythms of body temperature and activity in free-living Black-tailed Tree Rats (Thallomys nigricauda) along an aridity gradient. Physiology and Behavior 99 (1) 23-32

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Daily rhythms of body temperature and activity in free_living Black-tailed Tree Rats along an aridity gradient.pdf	566.36 KB

Coleman JC 2008. Integrated physiology and behavious of Thallomys nigricauda along an aridity gradient.

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Starik N, Mbango OK, Bengsch S, Göttert T, Zeller U 2020. Landscape transformation influences responses of terrestrial small mammals to land use intensity in north-central Namibia. Diversity 12 (12)

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Landscape transformation influences responses of terrestrial small mammals to land use intensity in north_central Namibia.pdf	614.37 KB

Muck C, Zeller U 2006. Small mammal communities on cattle and game grazing areas in Namibia. African Zoology 41 (2) 215-223

Website link:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15627020.2006.11407357

Hoffmann A, Vohland K, Zeller U 2010. Overgrazing favours desert species - differences in arthropod and small mammal communities of the twin sites Gellap Ost and Nabaos. Biodiversity in southern Africa 2: Patterns and processes at regional scale 239-244

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Overgrazing favours desert species.pdf	1.82 MB

Hoffmann A, Zeller U 2005. Influence of variations in land use intensity on species diversity and abundance of small mammals in the Nama Karoo, Namibia. Belgian Journal of Zoology 135 91-96

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Influence of variations in land use intensity on species diversity and abundance of small mammals in the Nama Karoo_Namibia.pdf	214.36 KB