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 rex Yerbury and Thomas, 1895 . Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1895:552 . TYPE LOCALITY: Yemen , Lahej , near Aden . DISTRIBUTION: SW Arabia, from Mecca to Aden (see Harrison and Bates, 1991:289 ). SYNONYMS: buryi , philbyi . COMMENTS: Subgenus Parameriones , according to Nadler and Lay (1967) and Harrison and Bates (1991) , but not allocated to a subgenus by Pavlinov et al. (1990) .