Meriones tristrami Thomas, 1892 . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 6, 9:148.

TYPE LOCALITY: Israel, Dead Sea region .

DISTRIBUTION: From Israel, Lebanon, and Jordan to E Turkey, Syria, N Iraq, NW Iran, and Transcaucasia (see Harrison and Bates, 1991:294).

SYNONYMS: blackleri, bodenheimeri, bogdanovi, intraponticus, karieteni, lycaon.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Pallasiomys . The species was generally reviewed by Corbet (1978c) and regionally reviewed by Harrison and Bates (1991) and Lay (1967). Chromosomal polymorphism and its significance among Transcaucasian samples was reported by Korobitsyna and Korablev (1980).