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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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Synonyms:

    bipes (Lichtenstein, 1823)
    gerboa (Olivier, 1800)
    locusta (Illiger, 1815)
    mauritanicus (Duvernoy, 1841)

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