Sekeetamys Ellerman, 1947 . Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 117:271.

TYPE SPECIES: Gerbillus calurus Thomas, 1892 .

COMMENTS: Reviewed by Corbet (1978c), who also discussed the past allocation of calurus to either Meriones or Gerbillus . One of four gerbil genera in which electrophoretic, chromosomal, and morphological traits were examined to assess rates of evolutionary change (Qumsiyeh and Chesser, 1988). Placed in the tribe Rhombomyini by Pavlinov et al. (1990).