Phyllotis gerbillus Thomas 1900

Phyllotis gerbillus Thomas, 1900. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 5: 151. TYPE LOCALITY: Peru, Piura Dept., Piura. DISTRIBUTION: N.W. Peru. COMMENT: Formerly included in Paralomys; see Hershkovitz, 1962, Fieldiana Zool., 46:217, 399, and Pearson and Patton, 1976, J. Mammal., 57: 346, who considered gerbillus close to darwini, and not in a separate genus or subgenus. ISIS NUMBER: 5301410008042005001.Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 3), pp. 392-476 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 457, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.735303