Tatera indica (Hardwicke, 1807) . Trans. Linn. Soc. London, 8:279.

TYPE LOCALITY: India, United Prov., between Benares and Hardwar .

DISTRIBUTION: An extensive range from Syria, Iraq, and Kuwait through Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan into most of Indian Peninsula north to the Terai region of S Nepal; also Sri Lanka (see Bates, 1988).

SYNONYMS: bailwardi, ceylonica, cuvieri, dunni, hardwickei, monticola, otarius, persica, pitmani, scansa, sherrini, taeniurus .

COMMENTS: Subgenus Tatera . Revised by Bates (1988), who recognized three distinctive subspecies. Regional reviews of the species include the segments from Arabian Peninsula (Harrison and Bates, 1991), Iran (Lay, 1967), Afghanistan (Hassinger, 1973), and Pakistan (Roberts, 1977). This is the only species that Pavlinov et al. (1990) allocated to the genus Tatera, redefining all African species to the genus Gerbilliscus .