Gerbillus amoenus (De Winton, 1902) . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 9:46.

TYPE LOCALITY: Egypt, Giza Prov .

DISTRIBUTION: Egypt and Libya, possibly across Tunisia and Algeria to Mauritania.

COMMENT: Wassif, 1956, Ain Shams Sci. Bull., No. 1:185, and Ranck, 1968, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., 275: 129, regarded amoenus as distinct. Reviewed by Osborn and Helmy, 1980, Fieldiana Zool., n.s., 5:167, and regarded in genus Dipodillus and as distinct from nanus and dasyurus; formerly included in campestris by Petter, 1975, Part 6.3:11, and in nanus by Corbet, 1978:120; see comment under Gerbillus .

ISIS NUMBER: 5301410008091002001.