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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Dipodoidea
--> FAMILY Dipodidae
--> SUBFAMILY Dipodinae
--> GENUS Jaculus
SPECIES Jaculus orientalis
| Author: | Erxleben, 1777. | | Citation: | Syst. Regn. Anim., 1: 404. | | Common Name: | Greater Egyptian Jerboa | | Type Locality: | Egypt, in the "mountains separating Egypt from Arabia" (G. M. Allen, 1939:424). | | Distribution: | Arid or semarid regions of N Africa and Israel, from Morocco (see the range map in Aulagnier and Thévenot, 1986) E through Algeria (Kowalski and Rzebik-Kowalska, 1991), Tunisia (Vesmanis, 1984), and Libya (Ranck, 1968) to Egypt (Osborn and Helmy, 1980), Sinai and S Israel (Mendelssohn and Yom-Tov, 1999; "a narrow strip in northern Negev," G. Shenbrot, in litt., 2003). | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (nt). | | Comments: | Jaculus orientalis has been identified from the late Pliocene in Ethiopia (Wesselman, 1984) and Plio-Pleistocene in Kenya (Black and Krishtalka, 1986). For synonyms see Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951). |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
bipes (Lichtenstein, 1823)
gerboa (Olivier, 1800)
locusta (Illiger, 1815)
mauritanicus (Duvernoy, 1841)
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