Gerbillus famulus Yerbury and Thomas, 1895 . Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1895:551.

TYPE LOCALITY: South Yemen, Aden, Lehej .

DISTRIBUTION: Endemic to South Yemen and North Yemen (see Harrison and Bates, 1991:272).

COMMENTS: A large and elegant gerbil whose morphology, geographic range, and ecology was reviewed by Harrison and Bates (1991).