Taterillus pygargus (F. Cuvier, 1838)

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 : 563

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scientific name	Taterillus pygargus (F. Cuvier, 1838)
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Taterillus pygargus (F. Cuvier, 1838) View in CoL . Trans. Zool. Soc. London, 2:142.

TYPE LOCALITY: Senegal, probably St. Louis (as suggested by Robbins, 1977:191) .

DISTRIBUTION: Gambia, Senegal, S Mauritania, and W Mali.

COMMENTS: Cuvier's pygargus was included in Gerbillus pyramidum , but the holotype is an example of Taterillus ( Petter et al., 1972; Petter, 1975b, and references therein). Apparently unaware of Petter's observation, Lay (1983) listed pygargus as a species of Gerbillus known only from the type locality, which he thought was Egypt.