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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Muridae
--> SUBFAMILY Gerbillinae
--> GENUS Meriones
--> SUBGENUS Parameriones
SPECIES Meriones (Parameriones) persicus
| Author: | Blanford, 1875. | | Citation: | Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 4, 16: 312. | | Common Name: | Persian Jird | | Type Locality: | Iran, Kohrud, north of Isfahan. | | Distribution: | Iran, adjacent regions of Transcaucasia, Turkey (E Anatolia), Iraq, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan and Pakistan (west of Indus River). | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | Subgenus Parameriones. Regional studies available for the Middle East (Harrison and Bates, 1991), Pakistan (Roberts, 1977), Afghanistan (Hassinger, 1973), Iran (Lay, 1967; Morshed and Patton, 2002), E Anatolian Turkey (Kryštufek and Vohralík, 2001), and Russia (Gromov and Erbajeva, 1995). Yi—it and Çolak (1999) recorded 2n = 42, FN = 78 for samples from E Turkey. Reviewed by Pavlinov et al. (1990). |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
ambrosius Thomas, 1919
baptistae Thomas, 1920
gurganensis Goodwin, 1939
rossicus Heptner, 1931
suschkini (Kashkarov, 1925)
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