Meriones shawi
Description
Meriones shawi (Duvernoy, 1842). Mem. Soc. Sci. Nancy, 3:22.
TYPE LOCALITY: Algeria, Oran, 35° 42' N „ 0° 38' W.
DISTRIBUTION: Morocco to N. Algeria, Tunisia, and Egypt.
COMMENT: Considered a distinct species by Lay and Nadler, 1969, Cytogenetics, 8: 35-50, Harrison, 1972, The Mammals of Arabia, 3:593, and Petter, 1975, Part 6.3:4. Includes granáis and isis; see Petter, 1975, Part 6.3:4, and Corbet, 1978:127. Lay, 1981, in Utt., considered granáis a distinct species. Setzer, 1961, J. Egypt Public Health. Assoc., 36:81-90, and Ranck, 1968, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., 275:1 -264, referred to specimens of shawi as libycus. DML considers shawi a valid species, readily distinguishable from libycus. Formerly included tristrami; see Corbet, 1978:126.
ISIS NUMBER: 5301410008092009001.
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- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7353031 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/ED45FFC7FF8B526EFF92C416FF8BFFBD (URL)
Biodiversity
- Family
- Cricetidae
- Genus
- Meriones
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Rodentia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Duvernoy
- Species
- shawi
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Meriones shawi (Duvernoy, 1842) sec. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl, 1982
References
- Nadler, C. F., D. M. Lay, and J. D. Hassinger. 1969. Chromosomes of three asian mammals: Meriones meridianus (Rodentia: Gerbillinae), Spermophilopsis leptodactylus (Rodentia: Sciuridae), Ochotona rufescens (Lagomorpha: Ochotonidae). Experientia, 25: 774 - 775.
- Ranck, G. L. 1968. The rodents of Libya: Taxonomy, ecology, and zoogeographical relationships. Bulletin of the United States National Museum, 275: 1 - 264.