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 Acomys cahirinus (Desmarest, 1819) . Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat., Nouv. ed., 29:70 . TYPE LOCALITY: Egypt , Cairo . DISTRIBUTION: W Sahara to Egypt (including Sinai ), N Nigeria , N Ethiopia , N Sudan , Jordan , Israel , Lebanon , Syria , Yemen , Oman , Saudi Arabia , S Iraq , Iran , and Pakistan . SYNONYMS: airensis , albigena, chudeaui , dimidiatus , flavidus , helmyi, hispidus , homericus, hunteri , megalodus, megalotis , nubicus, sabryi , seurati , viator , whitei. COMMENTS: Subgenus Acomys . Synonyms have either been treated as separate species, or as subspecies or synonyms of either A. cahirinus or A. dimidiatus ( Ellerman, 1941 ; Harrison and Bates, 1991 ; Petter, 1983 ; Setzer, 1975 ). The cahirinus-dimidiatus complex needs critical systematic revision and may consist of several morphologically similar species ( Corbet and Hill, 1991 ; Petter, 1983 ). Benazzou (1983) , for example, recognized chudeaui as a species, and Le Berre and Le Guelte (1990) listed airensis and chudeaui as separate species. Chromosomal data reported by Tranier (1975, under A. airensis ), Al-Saleh (1988), Volobouev et al. (1991 , under A. dimidiatus ), and Harrison and Bates (1991) .