Jaculus orientalis Erxleben 1777

Jaculus orientalis Erxleben, 1777. Syst. Regn. Anim., 1:404. TYPE LOCALITY: Egypt, in the "mountains separating Egypt from Arabia" (Allen, 1939:424). DISTRIBUTION: Deserts of N Africa and Arabia (Harrison and Bates, 1991), from Morocco E through Algeria (Kowalski and Rzebik-Kowalska, 1991), Tunisia (Vesmanis, 1984), and Libya (Ranck, 1968) to Egypt (Osborn and Helmy, 1980), Sinai and S Israel. SYNONYMS: bipes, gerboa, locusta, mauritanicus (see Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951). COMMENTS: J. orientalis has been identified from the late Pliocene in Ethiopia (Wesselman, 1984) and Plio-Pleistocene in Kenya (Black and Krishtalka, 1986). See comment under J. turcmenicus.Published as part of Mary Ellen Holden, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Dipodidae, pp. 487-499 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 494, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.735307