Jaculus orientalis Erxleben, 1777

Mary Ellen Holden, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Dipodidae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 487-499 : 494

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Jaculus orientalis Erxleben, 1777 View in CoL . Syst. Regn. Anim., 1:404.

TYPE LOCALITY: Egypt, in the "mountains separating Egypt from Arabia" ( Allen, 1939:424) .

DISTRIBUTION: Deserts of N Africa and Arabia ( Harrison and Bates, 1991), from Morocco E through Algeria ( Kowalski and Rzebik-Kowalska, 1991), Tunisia ( Vesmanis, 1984), and Libya ( Ranck, 1968) to Egypt ( Osborn and Helmy, 1980), Sinai and S Israel.

SYNONYMS: bipes , gerboa , locusta , mauritanicus (see Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951).

COMMENTS: J. orientalis has been identified from the late Pliocene in Ethiopia ( Wesselman, 1984) and Plio-Pleistocene in Kenya ( Black and Krishtalka, 1986). See comment under J. turcmenicus .

References

Allen, G. M. 1939. A checklist of African mammals. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, 83: 1 - 763.

Black, C. C., and L. Krishtalka. 1986. Rodents, bats, and insectivores from the Plio-Pleistocene sediments to the east of Lake Turkana, Kenya. Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 372: 1 - 15.

Ellerman, J. R., and T. C. S. Morrison-Scott. 1951. Checklist of Palaearctic and Indian mammals 1758 to 1946. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 810 pp.

Harrison, D. L., and P. J. J. Bates. 1991. The mammals of Arabia, Second ed. Harrison Zoological Museum, Sevenoaks, United Kingdom, 354 pp.

Kowalski, K., and B. Rzebik-Kowalska. 1991. Mammals of Algeria. Zaklad Narodowy Imienia Ossolinskich Wydawnictwo Polskiej Akademii Nauk Wroclaw, Poland, 370 pp.

Osborn, D. J., and I. Helmy. 1980. The contemporary land mammals of Egypt (including Sinai). Fieldiana: Zoology, 5: 1 - 579.

Ranck, G. L. 1968. The rodents of Libya: Taxonomy, ecology, and zoogeographical relationships. Bulletin of the United States National Museum, 275: 1 - 264.

Vesmanis, I. E. 1984. Zur verbreitung von Jaculus orientalis Erxleben, 1777 und Jaculus jaculus (Linnaeus, 1758) in Tunesien (Mammalia, Rodentia, Dipodidae). Zoologische Abhandlungen Staatliches Museum fur Tierkunde in Dresden, 40 (4): 59 - 65.

Wesselman, H. B. 1984. The Omo micromammals. Systematics and paleoecology of Early Man sites from Ethiopia. Contributions to Vertebrate Evolution, 7: 1 - 219.