HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Dipodoidea
--> FAMILY Dipodidae
--> SUBFAMILY Allactaginae
--> GENUS Allactaga
--> SUBGENUS Orientallactaga
SPECIES Allactaga (Orientallactaga) balikunica
Author: | Hsia and Fang, 1964. | Citation: | Acta Zootaxon. Sin., 6: 16. | Common Name: | Balikun Jerboa | Type Locality: | China, Xinjiang, Balikun. | Distribution: | Mongolia, from Altai Sumon east to Bordzon-Gobi (Sokolov et al., 1981a), and NE Xinjiang, China (Ma et al., 1987). | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | Comments: | Subgenus Orientallactaga. Closely related to A. bullata, with which it is parapatric in S Mongolia where the two species occur together in a narrow strip several kilometers wide (G. Shenbrot, in litt., 2003). Listed as a subspecies of A. bullata by Wang (2003). |
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