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--> GENUS Jaculus
SPECIES Jaculus jaculus
Author: | Linnaeus, 1758. | Citation: | Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1: 63. | Common Name: | Lesser Egyptian Jerboa | Type Locality: | Egypt, Giza Pyramids. | 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." | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | 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). 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). |
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aegyptius (Lichtenstein, 1827) airensis Thomas and Hinton, 1921 arenaceous Ranck, 1968 butleri Thomas, 1922 centralis Thomas and Hinton, 1921 collinsi Ranck, 1968 cufrensis Ranck, 1968 darricarrerei Lataste, 1883 deserti Loche, 1867 elbaensis Setzer, 1955 favillus Setzer, 1955 favonicus Thomas, 1913 florentiae Cheesman and Hinton, 1924 fuscipes Ranck, 1968 gordoni Thomas, 1903 hirtipes (Lichtenstein, 1823) loftusi Blanford, 1875 macromystax (Lichtenstein, 1828) macrotarsus (Wagner, 1840) microtis Reichenow, 1887 oralis Cheesman and Hinton, 1924 rarus Ranck, 1968 schlueteri Nehring, 1901 sefrius Thomas and Hinton, 1921 syrius Thomas, 1922 tripolitanicus Ranck, 1968 vastus Ranck, 1968 vocator Thomas, 1921 vulturnus Thomas, 1913 whitchurchi Ranck, 1968
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