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Fat Sand Rat
Psammomys obesus Cretzschmar, 1828
Also calledFed Sandrotte (dan) · Fett-Sandratte (deu) · Fette Sandratte (deu) · Gerbil-Gordinho (por) · Psammomys obese (fra) · Rat de Sable (fra) · Rat de sable diurne (fra) · Sandløperrotte (nob) · Vette Zandrat (nld) · jird gordo (spa) · piaskówka tłusta (pol) · pískomil tlustý (ces) · rasvajirdi (fin) · Παχύς Αμμοαρουραίος (ell)
First described in: In Rüppell, Atlas Reise Nordl. Afr., Zool. Säugeth. p.p. 58, pl. 22
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
distribution
Distribution: Status uncertain but apparently rare. Recorded in southwest of Al-Badia and the foothill range of Lebanon mountains (Fig. 35). Previous records: Al-Nabk (Harrison & Bates 1991) and Al-Qaryatein (Aharoni 1932; Shehab 2004 a).
Checklist of Mammals of Syria
discussion
Discussion: Electrophoretic, chromosomal, and morphological traits were analyzed by Qumsiyeh and Chesser (1988) in the context of assessing evolutionary change among four genera of gerbils. Reviewed by Corbet (1978 c) and Pavlinov et al. (1990). Arabian population reviewed by Harrison and Bates (1991), Israeli and Jordanian by Qumsiyeh (1996) and Mendelssohn and Yom-Tov (1999), Egyptian by Osborn and Helmy (1980), Algerian by Kowalski and Rzebik-Kowalska (1991), and Moroccan by Aulagnier and Thevenot (1986).
Order Rodentia - Family Muridae
distribution
Distribution: In North Africa from Morocco (Aulagnier and Thevenot, 1986) and Algeria (Kowalski and Rzebik-Kowalska, 1991), through Tunisia and coastal region of Egypt (Osborn and Helmy, 1980), into Syria, Jordan, Israel, and parts of Arabian Peninsula (Harrison and Bates, 1991); also on coast of Sudan (Corbet, 1978 c).
Order Rodentia - Family Muridae
discussion
COMMENTS: Electrophoretic, chromosomal, and morphological traits were analyzed by Qumsiyeh and Chesser (1988) in the context of assessing evolutionary change among four genera of gerbils.
Order Rodentia - Family Muridae
Where it has been recorded
Recorded sightings
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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 5219747.