Order Rodentia - Family Muridae Author Guy G. Musser Author Michael D. Carleton text 1993 Smithsonian Institution Press Washington and London Editor Don E. Wilson Editor DeeAnn M. Reeder Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition) 501 755 book chapter http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7353098 1-56098-217-9 7353098 Meriones crassus Sundevall, 1842 . K. Svenska Vet. Akad., Ser. 3, p. 233 . TYPE LOCALITY: Egypt , Sinai , Fount of Moses (Ain Musa) . DISTRIBUTION: Across North Africa from Morocco through Niger, Sudan, and Egypt to Israel , Jordan , Syria , Saudi Arabia , Iraq , Iran , and Afghanistan . SYNONYMS: asyutensis, charon , ismahelis , longifrons , pallidus , pelerinus , perpallidus , swinhoei . COMMENTS: Subgenus Pallasiomys . Reviewed by Corbet (1978c) . Regional reviews of the species are available for Algeria ( Kowalski and Rzebik-Kowalska, 1991 ), Libya ( Ranck, 1968 ), Egypt ( Osborn and Helmy, 1980 ), the Arabian Peninsula ( Harrison and Bates, 1991 ), Iran ( Lay, 1967 ), and Afghanistan ( Hassinger, 1973 ). See Koffler (1972 , Mammalian Species, 9).