Meriones (Pallasiomys) vinogradovi Heptner 1931

Meriones (Pallasiomys) vinogradovi Heptner 1931, Zool. Anz., 94: 122.

Type Locality: Iran, Persian Azarbaijan.

Vernacular Names: Vinogradov's Jird.

Distribution: E Anatolian Turkey, N Syria, N Iran, and Armenia and Azerbaijan (see Harrison and Bates, 1991).

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Subgenus Pallasiomys . A distinctive species (Pavlinov and Rossolimo, 1987; Pavlinov et al., 1995 a) that was reviewed by Pavlinov et al. (1990) and Harrison and Bates (1991). The Iranian population was reviewed by Lay (1967), the Syrian by Misonne (1957), Turkish by Yi it et al. (1997 b), and the segment in Russia by Gromov and Erbajeva (1995).