HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Muridae
--> SUBFAMILY Gerbillinae
--> GENUS Meriones
--> SUBGENUS Pallasiomys
SPECIES Meriones (Pallasiomys) zarudnyi
Author: | Heptner, 1937. | Citation: | Byull. Moscow Ova. Ispyt. Prir. Otd. Biol., 46: 19. | Common Name: | Zarudny’s Jird | Type Locality: | Turkmenistan, Kushka (Afghanistan-Turkmenistan border). | Distribution: | NE Iran, N Afghanistan, and S Turkmenistan. | Status: | IUCN – Endangered. | Comments: | Subgenus Pallasiomys. Reviewed by Corbet (1978c) and Pavlinov et al. (1990) and listed by Pavlinov and Rossolimo (1987) as a distinctive species. The Afghanistan population was reviewed by Hassinger (1973), the E Anatolian by Yiit et al. (1997), and segment in Turkmenistan by Gromov and Erbajeva (1995). |
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