Fat gerbil, distribution: Morocco, Western Sahara, Mauritania, Egypt, Sinai Peninsula, Israel, Palestine, Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, north-eastern Sudan.
Grey pseudo-rat, distribution: Western Australia.
Brush-tailed gerbils, distribution: South Africa, southern Namibia.
Sula rat, distribution: central Sulawesi, Indonesia.
Sox, distribution: Central Sulawesi, Indonesia.
Small-toothed Philippine rat, distribution: Luzon and Catanduanes Island, Philippines.
Indian-Pakistani gerbil, distribution: southeastern Iran, southern Pakistan, northwestern India, Afghanistan.
Indian rats, distribution: southeastern Iran, Pakistan, India, southern Nepal, Sri Lanka.
Indochina white-bellied rat, distribution: northern Pakistan, northwestern and northeastern India, Nepal, Bhutan, China Tibet, Yunnan, Myanmar, northern Vietnam, Thailand.
Chisun rat, distribution: St. Isabel's Island in the Solomon Islands. (For more exciting content, please pay attention to the "Animal World" WeChat public account: iltawcom)
Rodents make up the largest order of mammals, with about 2488 species, accounting for more than 40 percent of the mammalian species. Common rodents are rats, squirrels, chipmunks, cystic rats, porcupines, beavers, hamsters, gerbils, guinea pigs, octopus rats, woolly rats, prairie dogs and American marmots. There are 816 species in 154 genera in the family Rodentidae, accounting for the vast majority of rodents. We introduce 10 of them every day for 8 days during the Spring Festival, please keep an eye on it :)