Psammomys Cretzschmar, 1828 . In Riippell, Atlas Reise Nordl. Afr., Zool. Säugeth., p. 56.

TYPE SPECIES: Psammomys obesus Cretzschmar, 1828 .

COMMENTS: Reviewed by Corbet (1978c, 1984). A member of the tribe Rhombomyini in the classification scheme of Pavlinov et al. (1990).