Tatera indica (Hardwicke, 1807)

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 : 561

Tatera indica (Hardwicke, 1807) . Trans. Linn. Soc. London, 8:279.

TYPE LOCALITY: India, United Prov., between Benares and Hardwar .

DISTRIBUTION: An extensive range from Syria, Iraq, and Kuwait through Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan into most of Indian Peninsula north to the Terai region of S Nepal; also Sri Lanka (see Bates, 1988).

SYNONYMS: bailwardi , ceylonica , cuvieri , dunni , hardwickei , monticola , otarius , persica , pitmani , scansa, sherrini , taeniurus .

COMMENTS: Subgenus Tatera . Revised by Bates (1988), who recognized three distinctive subspecies. Regional reviews of the species include the segments from Arabian Peninsula ( Harrison and Bates, 1991), Iran ( Lay, 1967), Afghanistan ( Hassinger, 1973), and Pakistan ( Roberts, 1977). This is the only species that Pavlinov et al. (1990) allocated to the genus Tatera , redefining all African species to the genus Gerbilliscus .