Jaculus jaculus (Linnaeus 1758)

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Dipodidae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 871-893 : 883

Jaculus jaculus (Linnaeus 1758)

[Mus] jaculus Linnaeus 1758 , Syst. Nat., 10th ed., Vol. 1: 63 .

Type Locality: Egypt, Giza Pyramids.

Vernacular Names: Lesser Egyptian Jerboa.

Synonyms: Jaculus aegyptius (Lichtenstein 1827) ; Jaculus airensis Thomas and Hinton 1921 ; Jaculus arenaceous Ranck 1968 ; Jaculus butleri Thomas 1922 ; Jaculus centralis Thomas and Hinton 1921 ; Jaculus collinsi Ranck 1968 ; Jaculus cufrensis Ranck 1968 ; Jaculus darricarrerei Lataste 1883 ; Jaculus deserti Loche 1867 ; Jaculus elbaensis Setzer 1955 ; Jaculus favillus Setzer 1955 ; Jaculus favonicus Thomas 1913 ; Jaculus florentiae Cheesman and Hinton 1924 ; Jaculus fuscipes Ranck 1968 ; Jaculus gordoni Thomas 1903 ; Jaculus hirtipes (Lichtenstein 1823) ; Jaculus loftusi Blanford 1875 ; Jaculus macromystax ( Lichtenstein 1828) ; Jaculus macrotarsus (Wagner 1840) ; Jaculus microtis Reichenow 1887 ; Jaculus oralis Cheesman and Hinton 1924 ; Jaculus rarus Ranck 1968 ; Jaculus schlueteri Nehring 1901 ; Jaculus sefrius Thomas and Hinton 1921 ; Jaculus syrius Thomas 1922 ; Jaculus tripolitanicus Ranck 1968 ; Jaculus vastus Ranck 1968 ; Jaculus vocator Thomas 1921 ; Jaculus vulturnus Thomas 1913 ; Jaculus whitchurchi Ranck 1968 .

Distribution: N Africa in Senegal (Bâ et al., 2000; Duplantier and Granjon, 1992), NE Nigeria ( Happold, 1987) and Niger, from S Mauritania to Morocco (see range map in Aulagnier and Thévenot. 1986, and Bâ et al., 2001), E through Algeria ( Kowalski and Rzebik-Kowalska, 1991), Tunisia ( Vesmanis, 1984) and Libya ( Ranck, 1968) to Sudan ( Setzer, 1956), Ethiopia and Eritrea ( Yalden et al., 1996), Egypt ( Osborn and Helmy, 1980), and Somalia; throughout Arabia (Harrsion and Bates, 1991; Al-Jumaily, 1998, for Yemen), the Sinai and Israel ( Mendelssohn and Yom-Tov, 1999) through Iraq ( Hatt, 1959) to SW Iran ( Lay, 1967). Granjon et al. (1992:272) stated that this species "has probably only recently reached Senegal from Mauritania where it was previously known to occur.".

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: 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, 1978 c:152). Mendelssohn and Yom-Tov (1999) suggested that schlueteri is a species because it occurs adjacent to J. j. vocator in Israel without apparently intergrading as was claimed by Harrison and Bates (1991). Karyotype given by Al Saleh and Khan (1984) and Granjon et al. (1992). For synonyms see Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951) and Corbet (1978c).