Jaculus jaculus

Jaculus jaculus (Linnaeus, 1758). Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:63. TYPE LOCALITY: Egypt, Giza Pyramids. DISTRIBUTION: N. Nigeria; Niger; S.W. Mauritania to Morocco to Somalia; Arabia and Syria to S.W. Iran. COMMENT: Includes deserti; see Corbet, 1978: 152, and Harrison, 1972, The Mammals of Arabia, 3:419; but also see Ranck, 1968, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus„ 275:1 -264, who considered deserti a distinct species. ISIS NUMBER: 5301410016004002001.Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 6), pp. 560-594 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 567, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.735303