Meriones unguiculatus

Illustrated Gerbil Colour Genetics

by Jörg Eberbeck

Copyright © 1997, 1998 by Jörg Eberbeck. - Updated: 30. May 1998


In future I hope to be able to add pictures of more gerbil colours.

Information on the photographer and the source of a picture is available by pointing on it with the mouse or in the Acknowledgements section. Photos without notes are by the author of this page.

A version of this table without pictures is available on my genetics page


Genotype Colour Name
schimmel, old + young
--C-efefG-P- schimmel, mould
--CCefefggPP black eyed white (BEW) / silver schimmel
--CCefefG-pp red eyed schimmel, sandy
black eyed white (-- c[b]c[b] e[f]e[f] GG PP)
--cbcbefef--PP black eyed white (BEW)
PEW (photo: Julian Barker, http://www.rodent.demon.co.uk/gerbils/london97.htm)
--chch----pp pink eyed white1 (PEW)
--chchE---P- dark tailed white (DTW)
golden agouti, young (AaCCEeGgPP)
A-C-E-G-P- golden agouti / white bellied agouti golden1
A-C-E-ggP- grey agouti / white bellied grey agouti1
A-CCE-G-pp argente golden1
A-CCE-ggpp ivory cream
Algerian, young
A-CCeeG-P- sooty fawn1 / dark eyed honey (DEH) /
Algerian / golden fox
A-CCeeG-pp yellow fox
polar fox polar fox, young
A-CCeeggP- polar fox
apricot
A-CCeeggpp apricot
A-CchE-G-pp argente cream1
A-CchE-ggpp ivory cream, light
A-cbcbE-G-P- colourpoint agouti
A-cbcbE-ggP- pearl1 / smoke / colourpoint grey agouti
[similar to polar fox]
A-cbchE-G-P- light colourpoint agouti
black (aaCCEEGGPP) black (aaCCEEGGPP)
aaC-E-G-P- black1
aaC-E-ggP- slate1
lilac lilac
aaCCE-G-pp lilac1
aaCCE-ggpp ruby eyed white1 (REW)
argente nutmeg argente nutmeg
aaCCeeG-P- nutmeg
aaCCeeG-pp argente nutmeg
silver nutmeg
aaCCeeggP- silver nutmeg
aaCcbE-G-pp sapphire [in between lilac and dove]
aaCchE-G-pp dove1
Burmese Burmese
aacbcbE-G-P- Burmese1
aacbcbE-ggP- colourpoint slate
Siamese, young (photo: Julian Barker, http://www.rodent.demon.co.uk/gerbils/siam.htm)
aacbchE-G-P- Siamese1
Notes:
   1 These are names of show standards set up by the National Gerbil Society.


Acknowledgements

My thanks go to the following photographers / site owners - just in case they should become more numerous in future ;-) whose photos appear on this page:

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