The Greater Short-tailed Gerbil is a Moroccan species currently placed in Gerbillus, subgenus Dipodillus. It is reported from semiarid rocky hills and clay soils with grasses or bushes, while sandy areas and riverbeds are avoided.
The back is tawny gray and the underside pale salmon-ochre, with distinct white spots behind the eyes. The hind soles are naked; the bicolored tail is about 95% of head-and-body length and ends in a light pencil of darker hairs.
The account describes a nocturnal, terrestrial gerbil of hilly, rocky semiarid ground or clay soils with grasses and bushes in northern Morocco. It avoids sandy habitats and riverbeds; that treatment has no food information.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.