Jaculus orientalis Erxleben 1777

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Dipodidae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 871-893 : 883

Jaculus orientalis Erxleben 1777

Jaculus orientalis Erxleben 1777 , Systema Regni Animalis, Vol. 1: 404.

Type Locality: Egypt, in the "mountains separating Egypt from Arabia" (G. M. Allen, 1939:424).

Vernacular Names: Greater Egyptian Jerboa.

Synonyms: Jaculus bipes (Lichtenstein 1823) ; Jaculus gerboa (Olivier 1800) ; Jaculus locusta (Illiger 1815) ; Jaculus mauritanicus (Duvernoy 1841) .

Distribution: Arid or semarid regions of N Africa and Israel, from Morocco (see the range map in Aulagnier and Thévenot, 1986) 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 ( Mendelssohn and Yom-Tov, 1999; "a narrow strip in northern Negev," G. Shenbrot, in litt., 2003).

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (nt).

Discussion: Jaculus orientalis has been identified from the late Pliocene in Ethiopia ( Wesselman, 1984) and Plio-Pleistocene in Kenya ( Black and Krishtalka, 1986). For synonyms see Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951).