The charming gerbil is a small rodent found in North Africa. Records cover hard dry ground, salt marshes, and cultivated land, among other settings.
The adult head-and-body length is given as 7–10.5 cm and the tail as 9–14.5 cm, making the tail longer across the stated ranges.
The profile describes it as eating plants and seeds and digging burrows in hard, dry ground. It is also recorded in scrub, wadis, oases, salt marshes, and cultivated land.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.