Meriones crassus Sundevall, 1842 . K. Svenska Vet. Akad., Ser. 3, p. 233.

TYPE LOCALITY: Egypt, Sinai, Fount of Moses (Ain Musa) .

DISTRIBUTION: Across North Africa from Morocco through Niger, Sudan, and Egypt to Israel, Jordan, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, and Afghanistan.

SYNONYMS: asyutensis, charon, ismahelis, longifrons, pallidus, pelerinus, perpallidus, swinhoei .

COMMENTS: Subgenus Pallasiomys . Reviewed by Corbet (1978c). Regional reviews of the species are available for Algeria (Kowalski and Rzebik-Kowalska, 1991), Libya (Ranck, 1968), Egypt (Osborn and Helmy, 1980), the Arabian Peninsula (Harrison and Bates, 1991), Iran (Lay, 1967), and Afghanistan (Hassinger, 1973). See Koffler (1972, Mammalian Species, 9).