Common gundi

Common gundi
Ctenodactylus gundi
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Ctenodactylidae
Genus: Ctenodactylus
Species:
C. gundi
Binomial name
Ctenodactylus gundi
(Rothmann, 1776)
     distribution
Synonyms
  • C. arabicus (Shaw, 1801)
  • C. massonii Gray, 1830
  • C. typicus A. Smith, 1834

The common gundi (Ctenodactylus gundi) is a species of rodent in the family Ctenodactylidae. It is found in Algeria, Libya, Morocco, and Tunisia. The parasitic organism Toxoplasma gondii was first described in 1908 in Tunis by Charles Nicolle and Louis Manceaux within the tissues of the gundi.

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