Jaculus orientalis Erxleben 1777
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Jaculus orientalis Erxleben 1777
Jaculus orientalis Erxleben 1777, Systema Regni Animalis, Vol. 1: 404.
Type Locality: Egypt, in the "mountains separating Egypt from Arabia" (G. M. Allen, 1939:424).
Vernacular Names: Greater Egyptian Jerboa.
Synonyms: Jaculus bipes (Lichtenstein 1823); Jaculus gerboa (Olivier 1800); Jaculus locusta (Illiger 1815); Jaculus mauritanicus (Duvernoy 1841).
Distribution: Arid or semarid regions of N Africa and Israel, from Morocco (see the range map in Aulagnier and Thévenot, 1986) 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 (Mendelssohn and Yom-Tov, 1999; "a narrow strip in northern Negev," G. Shenbrot, in litt., 2003).
Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (nt).
Discussion: Jaculus orientalis has been identified from the late Pliocene in Ethiopia (Wesselman, 1984) and Plio-Pleistocene in Kenya (Black and Krishtalka, 1986). For synonyms see Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951).
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- Is part of
- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7316535 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/221A42D4CE141DE71979DF1F4C3EE530 (URL)
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- https://www.gbif.org/species/231527054 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Erxleben
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Rodentia
- Family
- Dipodidae
- Genus
- Jaculus
- Species
- orientalis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Jaculus orientalis Erxleben, 1777 sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005
References
- Erxleben, J. C. P. 1777. Systema regni animalis per classes, ordines, genera, species, varietates, cum synonymia et historia animalium. Classis I. Mammalia. Weygandianis, Lipsiae, 636 pp.
- Allen, G. M. 1939. A checklist of African mammals. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, 83: 1 - 763.
- Kowalski, K., and B. Rzebik-Kowalska. 1991. Mammals of Algeria. Zaklad Narodowy Imienia Ossolinskich Wydawnictwo Polskiej Akademii Nauk Wroclaw, Poland, 370 pp.
- 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.
- Ranck, G. L. 1968. The rodents of Libya: Taxonomy, ecology, and zoogeographical relationships. Bulletin of the United States National Museum, 275: 1 - 264.
- Osborn, D. J., and I. Helmy. 1980. The contemporary land mammals of Egypt (including Sinai). Fieldiana: Zoology, 5: 1 - 579.
- Mendelssohn, H., and Y. Yom-Tov. 1999. Fauna Palaestina. mammalia of Israel. The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Keterpress Enterprises, Jerusalem, 439 pp.
- Wesselman, H. B. 1984. The Omo micromammals. Systematics and paleoecology of Early Man sites from Ethiopia. Contributions to Vertebrate Evolution, 7: 1 - 219.
- 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.