The sand fox was once found in the Arava sands and the sandy Haluza-Revivim-Ze’elim area. There are even unconfirmed data from further north in Mishor Yamin and the Dead Sea shores.
| Name: |
Greater Egyptian Gerbil |
| Latin Name: |
Gerbillus pyramidum |
| Hebrew name: |
גרביל חולות, gerbil holot |
| Order: |
Rodentia |
| Family: |
Gerbillinae |
| Distribution: |
From the sands of the Western Negev (Agur and Shunera), via the Gaza Strip, north to Holon and Rishon LeZiyyon, east to Rotem plain. |
| Habitat: |
Shifting dunes or semi-stabile sand with sparse vegetation. |
| Notes: |
The population in the 1950s extended from the Western Negev sands north to the Yarqon River. A population was discovered in the coastal sands of the Western Galilee in the 1970s, which probably originated from several gerbils brought over by man; there is no later evidence pointing to the existence of the greater Egyptian gerbil in the Western Galilee coastal sands. |
