It would be a diminutive of gerbil or gerbil, a species of Asian rodent whose scientific name is Meriones unguiculatus; Although 'gerbilo' is also used as a common name as it happened with arda and squirrel. There is another similar animal in Africa called gerbil, and they are sometimes confused.
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