Gerbillus latastei Thomas and Trouessart, 1903

James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 3), Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA: Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections, pp. 392-476 : 415

Gerbillus latastei Thomas and Trouessart, 1903 . Bull. Soc. Zool. Fr., 28: 172.

TYPE LOCALITY: Tunisia, Kebili .

DISTRIBUTION: Tunisia to Sinai and Somalia.

COMMENT: Includes aureus (sensu Ranck, 1968, The Rodents of Libya, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., 275:1 -264), favillus, and nalutensis; may include bonhotei, dunni , perpallidus , riggenbachi , and rosalinda ; see Cockrum, 1977, Mammalia, 41:78. Included as a synonym of pyramidum by Petter, 1975, Part 6.3:8, who considered aureus a subspecies of pyramidum . Corbet, 1978:121, 122, included latastei in gerbillus and considered aureus a distinct species but did not cite Cockrum, 1977. Schlitter, 1976, Diss. Abstr. Int., 37(6), listed aureus as a distinct species; Schlitter, 1976, Unpubl. Ph.D. Dissertation, Univ. Maryland, 558 pp., included latastei in pyramidum . DLH regards latastei as a species but considers the status of aureus and latastei uncertain.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301410008091020001.