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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
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--> FAMILY Dipodidae
--> SUBFAMILY Dipodinae
--> 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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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
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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