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Allactaga tetradactyla

Description

Allactaga tetradactyla (Lichtenstein, 1823). Verz. Doublet. Zool. Mus. Univ. Berlin, p. 2.

TYPE LOCALITY: Libyan Desert between Siwa and Alexandria.

DISTRIBUTION: Coastal gravel plains of Egypt and E Libya, from near Alexandria to the Gulf of Sirte (see Ranck, 1968, and Osborn and Helmy, 1980).

SYNONYMS: brucii (see Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951).

COMMENTS: Subgenus Scarturus.

Notes

Published as part of Mary Ellen Holden, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Dipodidae, pp. 487-499 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 489, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353072

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Dipodidae
Genus
Allactaga
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Rodentia
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Lichtenstein
Species
tetradactyla
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Allactaga tetradactyla (Lichtenstein, 1823) sec. Ellen, 1993

References

  • 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.
  • 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.