Published December 31, 1993 | Version v1
Taxonomic treatment Open

Jaculus jaculus

Description

Jaculus jaculus (Linnaeus, 1758). Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:63.

TYPE LOCALITY: Egypt, Giza Pyramids.

DISTRIBUTION: Africa, NE Nigeria (Happold, 1987) and Niger, from SW Mauritania to Morocco, E through Algeria (Kowalski and Rzebik-Kowalska, 1991), Tunisia (Vesmanis, 1984) and Libya (Ranck, 1968) to Egypt (Osborn and Helmy, 1980), Sudan, and Somalia; throughout Arabia (Harrsion and Bates, 1991) to SW Iran (Lay, 1967).

SYNONYMS: aegyptius, airensis, arenaceous, butteri, centralis, collinsi, cufrensis, darricarrerei, deserti, elbaensis, favillus, favonicus, florentiae, fuscipes, gordoni, hirtipes?, loftusi, macromystax, macrotarsusl, oralis, rarus, schlueteri, sefrius, syrius, tripolitanicus, vastus, vocator, vulturnus, whitchurchi (see Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951; and Corbet, 1978c).

COMMENTS: Ranck (1968) recognized two species in this complex, J. jaculus and J. deserti, but Harrison (1978) showed that they are conspecific based on Ranck's criteria (see also discussion in Corbet, 1978c:152). Karyotype given by Al Saleh and Khan (1984). See comment under J. turcmenicus.

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 493, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353072

Files

Files (1.5 kB)

Name Size Download all
md5:641848df06bad9f64f51674cacf4d002
1.5 kB Download

System files (13.4 kB)

Name Size Download all
md5:b4895fc3783252832c0532ace79efd24
13.4 kB Download

Linked records

Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Dipodidae
Genus
Jaculus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Rodentia
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Linnaeus
Species
jaculus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Jaculus jaculus (Linnaeus, 1758) sec. Ellen, 1993

References

  • Happold, D. C. D., M. Happold, and J. E. Hill. 1987. The bats of Malawi. Mammalia, 51: 337 - 414.
  • 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.
  • Lay, D. M. 1967. A study of the mammals of Iran resulting from the Street expedition of 1962 - 63. Fieldiana: Zoology, 54: 1 - 282.
  • 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.
  • Corbet, G. B. 1978 c. The mammals of the Palaearctic region: A taxonomic review. British Museum (Natural History), London, 314 pp.
  • Harrison, D. L. 1978. A critical examination of alleged sibling species in the lesser three-toed jerboas (subgenus Jaculus) of the north African and Arabian deserts. Pp. 77 - 80, in Ecology and taxonomy of African small mammals (D. A. Schlitter, ed.). Bulletin of Carnegie Museum of Natural History, 6: 1 - 214.
  • Al Saleh, A. A., and M. A. Khan. 1984. Cytological studies of certain desert mammals of Saudi Arabia. 1. The karyotype of Jaculus jaculus. Journal of the College of Science, King Saud University, 15 (1): 163 - 168.