Mar 17, 2017
Speke’s gundi (Pectinator spekei)
Speke’s gundi lives on rocky cliffs, sheltering in rock fissures, in desert or semi-desert areas, and it is sometimes found in association with hyraxes. This species appears to be patchily distributed Ethiopia, Djibouti and Eritrea. The distribution in Somalia is unclear, but the type locality is in Somaliland It is listed as Least Concern.
Classification Animalia - Chordata - Mammalia - Eutheria - Boreoeutheria - Euarchontoglires - Glires - Rodentia - Hystricomorpha - Ctenodactyloidea - Ctenodactylidae - Ctenodactylus - Pectinator - P. spekei
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