Meriones rex Yerbury and Thomas, 1895 . Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1895:552.

TYPE LOCALITY: Yemen, Lahej, near Aden .

DISTRIBUTION: SW Arabia, from Mecca to Aden (see Harrison and Bates, 1991:289).

SYNONYMS: buryi, philbyi .

COMMENTS: Subgenus Parameriones, according to Nadler and Lay (1967) and Harrison and Bates (1991), but not allocated to a subgenus by Pavlinov et al. (1990).