Gerbillus hesperinus Cabrera, 1936

James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 3), Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA: Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections, pp. 392-476 : 414

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scientific name	Gerbillus hesperinus Cabrera, 1936
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Gerbillus hesperinus Cabrera, 1936 . Bol. Real. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat., p. 365.

TYPE LOCALITY: Morocco, Mogador (=Essouira) .

DISTRIBUTION: Coastal Morocco north of Middle Atlas Mtns.

COMMENT: Corbet, 1978:122, included hesperinus in pyramidum , and Schlitter, 1976, Unpubl. Ph.D. Dissertation, Univ. Maryland, 558 pp., included it in riggenbachi ; but see Lay, 1975, Fieldiana Zool., 65:95- 98, and Benazzou and Genest-Villard, 1980, Mammalia, 44:410, who considered hesperinus a distinct species.