Gerbillus perpallidus Setzer 1958

Gerbillus perpallidus Setzer, 1958. J. Egypt Public Health. Assoc., 33:221. TYPE LOCALITY: Egypt, Bir Victoria. DISTRIBUTION: N. Egypt, west of the Nile. COMMENT: Petter, 1975, Part 6.3:8, included perpallidus in pyramidum, but Corbet, 1978:122, and Schlitter, 1976, Diss. Abstr. Int., 37(6), considered perpallidus a distinct species. May be conspecific with latastei; see Cockrum, 1977, Mammalia, 41:78. Karyotypically distinct from latastei in the sense of Cockrum, 1977 (DML); see Jordan, 1974, Mammalia, 38:62, and Lay et al., 1975, Z. Saugetierk., 40:141-150.Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 3), pp. 392-476 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 416, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.735303