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Encyclopedic overview
Meriones may refer to: Meriones (mythology), a hero of the Trojan War Meriones (genus), a genus of gerbil that includes the species most commonly kept as a pet Meriones (subgenus) a subgenus of the genus Meriones that contains a single species: the Tamarisk Jird 3596 Meriones, a Trojan asteroid
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