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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Muridae
--> SUBFAMILY Gerbillinae
--> GENUS Meriones
--> SUBGENUS Pallasiomys
SPECIES Meriones (Pallasiomys) dahli
| Author: | Shidlovsky, 1962. | | Citation: | Definition Rodents Zakabkaziya: 115. | | Common Name: | Dahl’s Jird | | Type Locality: | Armenia, Sadarak steppe, foothills of Vardanis (Saraibulak) Ridge. | | Distribution: | Local sandy habitats in Armenia. | | Status: | IUCN – Endangered. | | Comments: | Subgenus Pallasiomys. Included in M. meridianus by Corbet (1978c) but shown to be a separate species by Dyatlov and Avanyan (1987), whose results were based on morphological, biochemical, and chromosomal traits, as well as interbreeding experiments. Reviewed by Pavlinov et al. (1990). |
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