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SPECIES Psammomys obesus

Author:Cretzschmar, 1828.
Citation:In Rüppell, Atlas Reise Nordl. Afr., Zool. Säugeth.: p. 58, pl. 22.
Common Name:Fat Sand Rat
Type Locality:Egypt, Alexandria.
Distribution:In North Africa from Morocco (Aulagnier and Thevenot, 1986) and Algeria (Kowalski and Rzebik-Kowalska, 1991), through Tunisia and coastal region of Egypt (Osborn and Helmy, 1980), into Syria, Jordan, Israel, and parts of Arabian Peninsula (Harrison and Bates, 1991); also on coast of Sudan (Corbet, 1978c).
Status:IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).
Comments:Electrophoretic, chromosomal, and morphological traits were analyzed by Qumsiyeh and Chesser (1988) in the context of assessing evolutionary change among four genera of gerbils. Reviewed by Corbet (1978c) and Pavlinov et al. (1990). Arabian population reviewed by Harrison and Bates (1991), Israeli and Jordanian by Qumsiyeh (1996) and Mendelssohn and Yom-Tov (1999), Egyptian by Osborn and Helmy (1980), Algerian by Kowalski and Rzebik-Kowalska (1991), and Moroccan by Aulagnier and Thevenot (1986).
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Synonyms:

    algiricus Thomas, 1902
    dianae Morrison-Scott, 1939
    elegans Heuglin, 1877
    nicolli Thomas, 1908
    roudairei Lataste, 1881
    terraesanctae Thomas, 1902
    tripolitanus Thomas, 1902

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