Burton's gerbil

{{Short description|Species of rodent}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2022}}

{{Speciesbox

| name = Burton's gerbil

| image = Gerbillus burtoni.jpg

| status = DD

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Granjon, L. |date=2017 |title=Gerbillus burtoni |volume=2017 |page=e.T9111A22464982 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-2.RLTS.T9111A22464982.en}}

| genus = Gerbillus

| species = burtoni

| authority = (F. Cuvier, 1838)

}}

Burton's gerbil (Gerbillus burtoni) is distributed mainly in Darfur, Sudan. Less than 250 individuals of this species of rodent are thought to persist in the wild. It may have been named after Edward Burton,{{cite book |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I-kSmWLc6vYC&q=Edward+Burton+zoologist&pg=PA66 |title=The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals |first1=Bo |last1=Beolens |first2=Michael |last2=Watkins |first3=Michael |last3=Grayson |page=66 |chapter=Burton, E. |publisher=JHU Press |date=7 October 2009 |isbn=9780801895333}} who had the gerbil in his menagerie, obtained from Darfur and described by Frédéric Cuvier.{{cite journal|author=Cuvier, F.|year=1838|title=Memoire sur les Gerboises et les Gerbilles|journal=Transactions of the Zoological Society of London|pages=131–148|doi=10.1111/j.1469-7998.1839.tb00013.x|url=https://archive.org/stream/transactionsofzo02zool#page/n183/mode/2up}}