Gerbillus simoni Lataste, 1881

Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 501-755 : 554

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Gerbillus simoni Lataste, 1881 View in CoL . Le Naturaliste, 3:499.

TYPE LOCALITY: Algeria, Oued Magra .

DISTRIBUTION: Egypt, W of Nile Delta, Libya, Tunisia, and Algeria.

SYNONYMS: kaiseri , zakariai .

COMMENTS: A distinctive species that is the type species of Dipodillus ( Lay, 1983) . Regional reviews are available for Egypt ( Osborn and Helmy, 1980), Libya ( Ranck, 1968), and Algeria ( Kowalski and Rzebik-Kowalska, 1991).