Author(s): Mohammad Abu Baker and Zuhair Amr
Article publication date: 2004-03-01
Vol. 22 No. 1 (yearly), pp. 9-20.
195
Keywords
Rodents. Mammalia, Wadi Ramm. Jordan, Dipodidae, Gliridae.,Muridae and Gerbillidae
Abstract
: Thirteen species of rodents representing four families (Dipodidae. Gliridae. Muridae and Gerbillidae) were recorded in the southern desert of Wadi Ramm, Jordan. Species accounts including external and cranial measurements and comments on their distribution and diurnal activity are given. New distribution records for the known range of Eliomys melanurus, Sekeetamys calurus, Gerbillus andersoni and Meriones libycus are included.