Psammomys obesus Cretzschmar, 1828

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 : 559

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Psammomys obesus Cretzschmar, 1828 View in CoL . In Riippell, Atlas Reise Nordl. Afr., Zool. Säugeth., p. 58, pl. 22.

TYPE LOCALITY: Egypt, Alexandria .

DISTRIBUTION: In North Africa from Algeria ( Kowalski and Rzebik-Kowalska, 1991) through Tunisia and coastal region of Egypt ( Osborn and Helmy, 1980) into Syria, Jordan, Israel, and parts of Arabia ( Harrison and Bates, 1991); also on coast of Sudan ( Corbet, 1978c).

SYNONYMS: algiricus , dianae, edusa, nicolli, roudairei , terraesanctae, tripolitanus .

COMMENTS: Electrophoretic, chromosomal, and morphological traits were analyzed by Qumsiyeh and Chesser (1988) in the context of assessing evolutionary change among four genera of gerbils.