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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Muridae
--> SUBFAMILY Gerbillinae
--> GENUS Meriones
--> SUBGENUS Pallasiomys
SPECIES Meriones (Pallasiomys) sacramenti
| Author: | Thomas, 1922. | | Citation: | Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 9, 10: 552. | | Common Name: | Buxton’s Jird | | Type Locality: | Israel, 10 mi (16 km) S Beersheba. | | Distribution: | A small range in Israel (on coastal plain south of the Yarqon River and in the N Negev) and NE Sinai Peninsula of Egypt (Harrison and Bates, 1991; Osborn and Helmy, 1980). | | Status: | IUCN – Endangered. | | Comments: | Subgenus Pallasiomys. A distinctive Israeli and Sinai endemic, reviewed by Osborn and Helmy (1980), Pavlinov et al. (1990), Harrison and Bates (1991), Qumsiyeh (1996), and Mendelssohn and Yom-Tov (1999). Apparently most closely related to M. shawi and M. libycus in its morphology (see Harrison and Bates, 1991, and references therein). |
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