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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Muridae
--> SUBFAMILY Gerbillinae
--> GENUS Psammomys
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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| Offspring: | 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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