Acomys russatus (Wagner, 1840)

Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 501-755 : 566

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scientific name	Acomys russatus (Wagner, 1840)
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Acomys russatus (Wagner, 1840) View in CoL . Abh. Akad. Wiss. Münchin, 3:195.

TYPE LOCALITY: Egypt, Sinai .

DISTRIBUTION: E Egypt, Sinai, Jordan, Israel, and Saudi Arabia.

SYNONYMS: aegyptiacus , affinis , harrisoni , lewisi.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Acomys . Qumsiyeh et al. (1986) retained lewisi as a species because although the karyotype of a sample from Jordan was indistinguishable from that of A. russatus , fur color and bacular morphology of lewisi was distinctive ( Atallah, 1967). However, based on morphological evidence, lewisi was included in A. russatus by Corbet (1978c), Osborn and Helmy (1980), and Harrison and Bates (1991). This allocation was also supported by genic data ( Janecek et al., 1991).