This subfamily includes 16 genera and 103 species of gerbils and jirds; they are distributed throughout Africa and the Middle East, Central Asia, and India, reaching north-east to China and Mongolia.

 

		Libyan Jird (Meriones libycus)
		Sand Rat (Psammomys obesus)

 

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