Acomys cahirinus (Desmarest, 1891) . Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat., 29:70.

TYPE LOCALITY: Egypt, Cairo .

DISTRIBUTION: Cyprus; Western Sahara to Egypt; Nigeria; Ethiopia; Somalia; Sudan; Kenya; Uganda; Jordan; Lebanon; Syria; Yemen; Oman; S. Iraq; Iran; Pakistan.

COMMENT: Includes cineraceus, hawashensis, johannis, kempi, and percivali; see Setzer, 1975, Part 6.5:1. Includes dimidiatus, albigena, hunteri, and ignitus; see Yalden et al., 1976, Monitore Zool. Ital., n.s., suppl. 8(1):42; Corbet, 1978: 142-143, and Osborn and Helmy, 1980, Fieldiana Zool., n.s., 5:297-298; but also see Setzer, 1975, Part 6.5:1, who listed dimidiatus as a distinct species which included hystrella and intermedius . Includes louisae; see Yalden et al., 1976, Monitore Zool. Ital., n.s., suppl. 8(1):1 — 118, but also see Setzer, 1975, Part 6.5:2, who included louisae in subspinosus . A. percivali is probably a distinct species from Kenya, Uganda and Sudan (DS).

ISIS NUMBER: 5301410011001002001 as A. cahirinus .

5301410011001001001 as A. albigena .

5301410011001003001 as A. cinerascens (sic).

5301410011001004001 as A. demidiatus (sic).

5301410011001005001 as A. hawashensis .

5301410011001006001 as A. hunteri .

5301410011001007001 as A. hystrella .

5301410011001008001 as A. ignitus .

5301410011001009001 as A. intermedius .

5301410011001010001 as A. johannis .

5301410011001011001 as A. kempi .

5301410011001012001 as A. louisae .

5301410011001014001 as A. percivali .