Meriones shawi (Duvernoy, 1842)

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 : 425

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scientific name	Meriones shawi (Duvernoy, 1842)
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Meriones shawi (Duvernoy, 1842) . Mem. Soc. Sci. Nancy, 3:22.

TYPE LOCALITY: Algeria, Oran, 35° 42' N „ 0° 38' W GoogleMaps .

DISTRIBUTION: Morocco to N. Algeria, Tunisia, and Egypt.

COMMENT: Considered a distinct species by Lay and Nadler, 1969, Cytogenetics, 8: 35-50, Harrison, 1972, The Mammals of Arabia, 3:593, and Petter, 1975, Part 6.3:4. Includes granáis and isis; see Petter, 1975, Part 6.3:4, and Corbet, 1978:127. Lay, 1981, in Utt., considered granáis a distinct species. Setzer, 1961, J. Egypt Public Health. Assoc., 36:81-90, and Ranck, 1968, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., 275:1 -264, referred to specimens of shawi as libycus . DML considers shawi a valid species, readily distinguishable from libycus . Formerly included tristrami ; see Corbet, 1978:126.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301410008092009001.

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