Meriones zarudnyi Heptner, 1937 . Byull. Moscow Ova. Ispyt. Prir. Otd. Biol., 46:19.

TYPE LOCALITY: Turkmenistan, Kushka (Afghanistan-Turkmenistan border) .

DISTRIBUTION: NE Iran, N Afghanistan, and S Turkmenistan.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Pallasiomys . Reviewed by Corbet (1978c) and listed by Pavlinov and Rossolimo (1987) as a distinctive species. The Afghanistan population was reviewed by Hassinger (1973).