Jaculus jaculus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Mary Ellen Holden, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Dipodidae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 487-499 : 493

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Jaculus jaculus (Linnaeus, 1758) View in CoL . Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:63.

TYPE LOCALITY: Egypt, Giza Pyramids .

DISTRIBUTION: Africa, NE Nigeria ( Happold, 1987) and Niger, from SW Mauritania to Morocco, E through Algeria ( Kowalski and Rzebik-Kowalska, 1991), Tunisia ( Vesmanis, 1984) and Libya ( Ranck, 1968) to Egypt ( Osborn and Helmy, 1980), Sudan, and Somalia; throughout Arabia (Harrsion and Bates, 1991) to SW Iran ( Lay, 1967).

SYNONYMS: aegyptius , airensis, arenaceous, butteri, centralis, collinsi, cufrensis, darricarrerei , deserti , elbaensis, favillus, favonicus, florentiae , fuscipes, gordoni , hirtipes ?, loftusi , macromystax , macrotarsusl, oralis, rarus, schlueteri , sefrius, syrius, tripolitanicus, vastus, vocator, vulturnus, whitchurchi (see Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951; and Corbet, 1978c).

COMMENTS: Ranck (1968) recognized two species in this complex, J. jaculus and J. deserti , but Harrison (1978) showed that they are conspecific based on Ranck's criteria (see also discussion in Corbet, 1978c:152). Karyotype given by Al Saleh and Khan (1984). See comment under J. turcmenicus .

References

Al Saleh, A. A., and M. A. Khan. 1984. Cytological studies of certain desert mammals of Saudi Arabia. 1. The karyotype of Jaculus jaculus. Journal of the College of Science, King Saud University, 15 (1): 163 - 168.

Corbet, G. B. 1978 c. The mammals of the Palaearctic region: A taxonomic review. British Museum (Natural History), London, 314 pp.

Ellerman, J. R., and T. C. S. Morrison-Scott. 1951. Checklist of Palaearctic and Indian mammals 1758 to 1946. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 810 pp.

Happold, D. C. D., M. Happold, and J. E. Hill. 1987. The bats of Malawi. Mammalia, 51: 337 - 414.

Harrison, D. L. 1978. A critical examination of alleged sibling species in the lesser three-toed jerboas (subgenus Jaculus) of the north African and Arabian deserts. Pp. 77 - 80, in Ecology and taxonomy of African small mammals (D. A. Schlitter, ed.). Bulletin of Carnegie Museum of Natural History, 6: 1 - 214.

Kowalski, K., and B. Rzebik-Kowalska. 1991. Mammals of Algeria. Zaklad Narodowy Imienia Ossolinskich Wydawnictwo Polskiej Akademii Nauk Wroclaw, Poland, 370 pp.

Lay, D. M. 1967. A study of the mammals of Iran resulting from the Street expedition of 1962 - 63. Fieldiana: Zoology, 54: 1 - 282.

Osborn, D. J., and I. Helmy. 1980. The contemporary land mammals of Egypt (including Sinai). Fieldiana: Zoology, 5: 1 - 579.

Ranck, G. L. 1968. The rodents of Libya: Taxonomy, ecology, and zoogeographical relationships. Bulletin of the United States National Museum, 275: 1 - 264.

Vesmanis, I. E. 1984. Zur verbreitung von Jaculus orientalis Erxleben, 1777 und Jaculus jaculus (Linnaeus, 1758) in Tunesien (Mammalia, Rodentia, Dipodidae). Zoologische Abhandlungen Staatliches Museum fur Tierkunde in Dresden, 40 (4): 59 - 65.