Salpingotus (Salpingotus) kozlovi Vinogradov 1922

Salpingotus (Salpingotus) kozlovi Vinogradov 1922, in: Kozlov, Mongolia and Amdo: 542.

Type Locality: Mongolia: Gobi desert, Khara-Khoto.

Vernacular Names: Kozlov's Pygmy Jerboa.

Synonyms: Salpingotus (Salpingotus) xiangi Hou and Jiang 1994 .

Distribution: Deserts of S and SE Mongolia; and China: Nei Mongol, Xinjiang, Gansu, N Shaanxi, and Ningxia (see Chen and Wang, 1985; Ma et al., 1987; Mi et al., 1990; Qian et al., 1965; Qin, 1991; Wang, 1990, 2003; and Zheng and Zhang, 1990; Chinese range mapped by Zhang et al., 1997).

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (nt).

Discussion: Subgenus Salpingotus . See Corbet (1978 c) for comment regarding allocation of specimen from Irtysh River on Kazakhstan-Chinese border to S. crassicauda . Reviewed by Ognev (1963 b). Study of geographic variation in Mongolian samples provided by Sokolov and Shenbrot (1988).