Gerbilliscus kempi (Wroughton, 1906)

Tatera kempii Wroughton, 1906: 375 .

COMMON NAME. — Kemp’s Gerbil.

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Kalakpa Resource Reserve • 1 ♂; brought to us by a Ghana Wildlife Division game scout; 18.XI.1999; ZT- NHC 973 .

REMARK

This species is known from other locations in the Volta Region and the Togo Highlands (Robbins & Van der Straeten 1996; Grubb et al. 1998). Notwithstanding the debate voiced in Granjon et al. (2012) regarding the identity of West African G. kempi, we retain the name here, due to the far southern Dahomey Gap occurrence of our single specimen from Kalakpa Resource Reserve.

CONSERVATION STATUS. — Gerbilliscus kempi is listed as “Least Concern” on the IUCN Red List.