Gerbillus dasyurus (Wagner, 1842) . Arch. Naturgesch., 8:20.

TYPE LOCALITY: Sinai .

DISTRIBUTION: Arabian Peninsula, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Sinai (see Harrison and Bates, 1991).

SYNONYMS: dasyroides, gallagheri, leosollicitus, palmyrae.

COMMENTS: Review of morphology and distribution, along with citations for synonyms, provided by Harrison and Bates (1991). Those authors also listed lixa as a synonym of G. dasyurus, but the holotype, a young animal, has an accessory tympanum and bare soled hind feet, which is uncharacteristic of G. dasyurus but does suggest alliance with G. nanus (Lay, 1983) .