Order Rodentia (Part 3) Author James H. Honacki Author Kenneth E. Kinman Author James W. Koeppl text 1982 Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections Lawrence, Kansas, USA Editor James H. Honacki Editor Kenneth E. Kinman Editor James W. Koeppl Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition) 392 476 book chapter http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7353031 f291a924-691f-4f06-bc89-3dc2421c2bed 0-89327-235-3 7353031 Gerbillus pyramidum I. Geoffroy, 1825 . Diet. Class. Hist. Nat., 7:321 . TYPE LOCALITY: Egypt , Giza Prov . DISTRIBUTION: Jordan and Israel to Algeria and N. Somalia ; Chad ; Senegal . COMMENT: Includes floweri; see Osborn and Helmy, 1980 , Fieldiana Zool., n.s., 5: 113. Includes acticola and dongolanus; see Petter, 1975, Part 6.3:8, who also listed hirtipes as a synonym; acticola and dongolanus are considered distinct by DML pending revision. Lay et al., 1975, Z. Saugetierk., 40: 148, suggested that hirtipes may be a distinct species; Corbet, 1978:121, included hirtipes in gerbillus and is followed here; see also comment under gerbillus . Formerly included Taterillus pygargus (see Petter, 1975, Part 6.3:5 and Petter, 1952, Mammalia , 16:37), latastei , aureus (see Cockrum, 1977, Mammalia , 41:78), perpallidus , riggenbachi (see Lay et al., 1975, Z. Saugetierk., 40: 148, Schlitter, 1976, Diss. Abstr. Int., 37(6), and Corbet and Hill, 1980:164 ), and hesperinus (see Lay, 1975, Fieldiana Zool., 65:95-98, and Benazzou and Genest-Villard, 1980 , Mammalia , 44:410). Corbet, 1978: 122, included riggenbachi and hesperinus in pyramidum , but considered perpallidus a distinct species. See Hubert, 1978, Bull. Carnegie Mus . Nat. Hist., 6:38-40, for discussion of distribution. ISIS NUMBER: 5301410008091032001 as G. pyramidum . 5301410008091001001 as G. acticola.