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

Jaculus jaculus (Linnaeus, 1758) . 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 .