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 Gerbillus simoni Lataste, 1881 . Le Naturaliste, 3:499 . TYPE LOCALITY: Algeria , Oued Magra . DISTRIBUTION: Egypt , W of Nile Delta, Libya , Tunisia , and Algeria . SYNONYMS: kaiseri , zakariai . COMMENTS: A distinctive species that is the type species of Dipodillus ( Lay, 1983 ) . Regional reviews are available for Egypt ( Osborn and Helmy, 1980 ), Libya ( Ranck, 1968 ), and Algeria ( Kowalski and Rzebik-Kowalska, 1991 ).