Meriones crassus Sundevall, 1842

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 : 556

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scientific name	Meriones crassus Sundevall, 1842
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Meriones crassus Sundevall, 1842 View in CoL . K. Svenska Vet. Akad., Ser. 3, p. 233.

TYPE LOCALITY: Egypt, Sinai, Fount of Moses (Ain Musa) .

DISTRIBUTION: Across North Africa from Morocco through Niger, Sudan, and Egypt to Israel, Jordan, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, and Afghanistan.

SYNONYMS: asyutensis, charon , ismahelis , longifrons , pallidus , pelerinus , perpallidus , swinhoei .

COMMENTS: Subgenus Pallasiomys . Reviewed by Corbet (1978c). Regional reviews of the species are available for Algeria ( Kowalski and Rzebik-Kowalska, 1991), Libya ( Ranck, 1968), Egypt ( Osborn and Helmy, 1980), the Arabian Peninsula ( Harrison and Bates, 1991), Iran ( Lay, 1967), and Afghanistan ( Hassinger, 1973). See Koffler (1972, Mammalian Species, 9).

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Mammalia
Order	Rodentia
Family	Muridae
Genus	Meriones