Gerbillus andersoni de Winton, 1902

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 : 549

Gerbillus andersoni de Winton, 1902 . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 9:45.

TYPE LOCALITY: Egypt, E Alexandria, Mandara .

DISTRIBUTION: Egypt, Nile Delta south to El Faiyum (as mapped for G. a. andersoni by Osborn and Helmy, 1980:120).

COMMENTS: The forms allenbyi , inflatus , and bonhotei have all been listed as synonyms of G. andersoni (e.g., Harrison and Bates, 1991; Osborn and Helmy, 1980), but Lay (1983) argued that current evidence does not support the union of these forms. He also suggested that bland and eatoni be tentatively associated with G. andersoni . The latter species should be considered monotypic pending a revision. With the range as described above, G. andersoni is allopatric with G. eatoni to the west and G. bonhotei to the east (see those accounts).