Dipodillus (Dipodillus) simoni Lataste 1881
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Dipodillus (Dipodillus) simoni Lataste 1881
Dipodillus (Dipodillus) simoni Lataste 1881, Le Naturaliste (Paris), 3: 499.
Type Locality: Algeria, Oued Magra.
Vernacular Names: Simon's Dipodil.
Synonyms: Dipodillus (Dipodillus) kaiseri (Setzer 1958).
Distribution: Along the coast of Egypt (west of Nile Delta) and NE Libya, coastal and inland in NW Libya and Tunisia, and high plateau region of the Atlas in Algeria and E Morocco (see Cockrum et al., 1976).
Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc) as Gerbillus simoni.
Discussion: Subgenus Dipodillus. A distinctive species (Lay, 1983; Pavlinov et al., 1990) revised by Cockrum et al. (1976 a) and reviewed by Pavlinov et al. (1990). Regional reviews are available for Egypt (Osborn and Helmy, 1980), Libya (Ranck, 1968), and Algeria (Kowalski and Rzebik-Kowalska, 1991). Although samples from coastal Egypt (kaiseri) have, on average, slightly longer tails, darker pelage, and smaller auditory bulla than do those from the western portion of the range (simoni), the variation is clinal east to west, prompting Cockrum et al. (1976 a) to treat all populations as a single species. This interpretation was endorsed by Osborn and Helmy (1980) from their study of Egyptian samples and comparisons with data in the literature, and supports Wassif’s (1956, 1960) earlier conclusion that kaiseri is synonymous with D. simoni. Chromosomal data summarized by Qumsiyeh and Schlitter (1991); karyotype (2n = 60, FN = 72) of Tunisian sample described by Chetoui et al. (2002).
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- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7316535 (DOI)
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Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Lataste
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Rodentia
- Family
- Muridae
- Genus
- Dipodillus
- Species
- simoni
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Dipodillus (Dipodillus) simoni Lataste, 1881 sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005
References
- Lay, D. M. 1983. Taxonomy of the genus Gerbillus (Rodentia: Gerbillinae) with comments on the applications of generic and subgeneric names and an annotated list of species. Zeitschrift fur Saugetierkunde, 48: 329 - 354.
- Pavlinov, I. Ya., Yu. A. Dubrovsky, O. L. Rossolimo, and E. G. Potapova. 1990. [Gerbils of the world.] Nauka, Moscow, 368 pp. (in Russian).
- Cockrum, E. L., T. C. Vaughan, and P. J. Vaughan. 1976 a. A review of North African short-tailed gerbils (Dipodillus) with description of a new taxon from Tunisia. Mammalia, 40 (2): 313 - 326.
- Osborn, D. J., and I. Helmy. 1980. The contemporary land mammals of Egypt (including Sinai). Fieldiana: Zoology, 5: 1 - 579.
- Ranck, G. L. 1968. The rodents of Libya: Taxonomy, ecology, and zoogeographical relationships. Bulletin of the United States National Museum, 275: 1 - 264.
- Kowalski, K., and B. Rzebik-Kowalska. 1991. Mammals of Algeria. Zaklad Narodowy Imienia Ossolinskich Wydawnictwo Polskiej Akademii Nauk Wroclaw, Poland, 370 pp.
- Qumsiyeh, M. B., and D. A. Schlitter. 1991. Cytogenetic data on the rodent family Gerbillidae. Occasional Papers, The Museum, Texas Tech University, 144: 1 - 20.
- Chetoui, M., K. Said, M. Rezig, and T. L. Cheniti. 2002. Analyse caryologique de quatre especes de gerbilles (Rongeurs, Gerbillinae) de Tunisie. Bulletin de la Societe zoologique de France, 127 (3): 211 - 221.