Jaculus orientalis Erxleben, 1777

Mary Ellen Holden, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Dipodidae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 487-499 : 494

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Jaculus orientalis Erxleben, 1777 View in CoL . 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 .