List of wild animals of Egypt
This is a list of the wild animal species that were reported in Egypt.
Class: Mammalia (mammals)
Order: Tubulidentata (aardvarks)
- Family: Orycteropodidae
- Genus: Orycteropus
Order: Hyracoidea (hyraxes)
- Family: Procaviidae (hyraxes)
- Genus: Procavia
Order: Sirenia (manatees and dugongs)
- Family: Dugongidae
Order: Rodentia (rodents)
- Family: Gliridae (dormice)
- Genus: Eliomys
- Asian garden dormouse Eliomys melanurus
- Genus: Eliomys
- Family: Dipodidae (jerboas)
- Genus: Allactaga
- Four-toed jerboa (Allactaga tetradactyla)[1]
- Genus: Jaculus
- Lesser Egyptian jerboa (Jaculus jaculus) [1]
- Greater Egyptian jerboa (Jaculus orientalis) [1]
- Genus: Allactaga
- Family: Spalacidae
- Genus: Nannospalax
- Middle East blind mole-rat Nannospalax ehrenbergi [2]
- Genus: Nannospalax
- Family: Muridae (mice, rats, voles, gerbils, hamsters etc.)
- Genus: Acomys
- Cairo spiny mouse (Acomys cahirinus) [3]
- Golden spiny mouse (Acomys russatus)
- Genus: Dipodillus
- North African gerbil Dipodillus campestris
- Mackilligin's gerbil (Dipodillus mackilligini)
- Genus: Gerbillus
- Pleasant gerbil Gerbillus amoenus [4]
- Anderson's gerbil Gerbillus andersoni[4]
- Flower's gerbil Gerbillus floweri
- Lesser Egyptian gerbil Gerbillus gerbillus
- Pygmy gerbil Gerbillus henleyi
- Pale gerbil Gerbillus perpallidus
- Greater Egyptian gerbil Gerbillus pyramidum
- Lesser short-tailed gerbil Gerbillus simoni
- Genus: Meriones
- Sundevall's jird Meriones crassus
- Libyan jird Meriones lybicus
- Shaw's jird Meriones shawi
- Genus: Pachyuromys
- Fat-tailed gerbil (pachyuromys duprasi)
- Genus: Psammomys
- Fat sand rat (psammomys obesus)
- Genus: Sekeetamys
- Bushy-tailed jird (sekeetamys calurus)
- Genus: Arvicanthis
- African grass rat (arvicanthis niloticus)
- Genus: Nesokia
- Short-tailed bandicoot rat (nesokia indica)
- Genus: Acomys
Order: Lagomporpha (lagomorphs)
Order: Erinaceomorpha (hedgehogs and gymnures)
- Family: Erinaceidae (hedgehogs)
- Genus: Hemiechinus
- Long-eared hedgehog Hemiechinus auritus
- Genus: Paraechinus
- Desert hedgehog Paraechinus aethiopicus
- Genus: Hemiechinus
Order: Soricomorpha (shrews, moles and solenodons)
References
- ^ a b c Shahin, Adel A. Basyouny; Ata, Abdel Twab M. (2001). "A comparative study on the karyotype and meiosis of the jerboasAllactagaandJaculus(Rodentia: Dipodidae) in Egypt". Zoology in the Middle East. 22 (1). Informa UK Limited: 5–16. doi:10.1080/09397140.2001.10637844. ISSN 0939-7140.
- ^ Shahin, Adel A. Basyouny; Mohamed, Amira M. Metwally; El Shatter, Abd El-Reheem A. (2018). "Genetic Differentiation and Relationship between Two Karyotype Forms of Nannospalax ehrenbergi (Rodentia: Spalacidae) in Egypt". Pakistan Journal of Zoology. 50 (5). ResearchersLinks Ltd. doi:10.17582/journal.pjz/2018.50.5.1671.1680. ISSN 0030-9923.
- ^ Younes, Mahmoud (3 January 2024). "The Nile Delta and Valley as An Ecological Barrier for Desert Mammals: With Special Reference To The Cairo Spiny Mouse, Acomys cahirinus". Egyptian Academic Journal of Biological Sciences. B, Zoology. 16 (1): 1–17. doi:10.21608/EAJBSZ.2024.333659.
- ^ a b Younes, Mahmoud; Khalifa, Mahmoud; Ghazy, Ahmed (2016-06-01). "Morphometric Analysis of Gerbillus Andersoni, G. Campestris and G. Amoenus from Egypt". Al-Azhar Bulletin of Science. 27 (1). Al-Azhar University: 9–16. doi:10.21608/absb.2016.24338. ISSN 1110-2535.