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gundi en · NOUN

Meanings

1. Any of the several North African rodents of the family Ctenodactylidae.
   • 1999, Gundi, entry in Michael A. Mares (editor), Encyclopedia of Deserts, page 258, Gundis occur over most of North Africa, including the western Sahara Desert and Sahel west of 15° east longitude, from Mauritania to Libya and Chad.
   • 2001, Gundis, entry in Peter Haggett (editor), Encyclopedia of World Geography, Volume 24, page 2220, Small balls of soft fur scampering up vertical rock faces, trilling and chirping like flocks of birds: these are the gundis, a curious family of rock-dwelling rodents that are found only in northern Africa. Four species of gundi live in the Sahara, one in the Horn of Africa.
   • The fact that specimens were collected and observed only in the higher portions of the gebel near Rumia is a direct result of my efforts having been concentrated there and does not indicate that gundis are most abundant at higher elevations or that they do not occur at lower elevations. 1968, Gary Laval Ranck, The Rodents of Libya: Taxonomy, Ecology and Zoogeographical Relationships, page 258:

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Deriveds

common gundi · North African gundi · Speke's gundi Pectinator spekei · Mzab gundi Massoutiera mzabi · Val's gundi · desert gundi · Felou gundi Felovia vae

Synonyms

ctenodactylid

Translations (3)

kmr qendî (rodent of the family Ctenodactylidae) · fi gundi (rodent of the family Ctenodactylidae) · it gundi (rodent of the family Ctenodactylidae)