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Gerbillus brockmani (Thomas, 1910). Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 5:420. TYPE LOCALITY: Somalia, Burao, 85 mi S Berbera. DISTRIBUTION: Somalia. COMMENTS: Petter (1975b) placed brockmani in synonymy with G. nanus, but no evidence indicates that the species occurs anywhere remotely near Somalia (see Lay, 1983).

Published as part of Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, pp. 501-755 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 549, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098