Sekeetamys Ellerman, 1947

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

Sekeetamys Ellerman, 1947 . Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 117:271.

TYPE SPECIES: Gerbillus calurus Thomas, 1892 .

COMMENTS: Reviewed by Corbet (1978c), who also discussed the past allocation of calurus to either Meriones or Gerbillus . One of four gerbil genera in which electrophoretic, chromosomal, and morphological traits were examined to assess rates of evolutionary change ( Qumsiyeh and Chesser, 1988). Placed in the tribe Rhombomyini by Pavlinov et al. (1990).