Pygeretmus platyurus (Lichtenstein, 1823)

Mary Ellen Holden, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Dipodidae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 487-499 : 490

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scientific name	Pygeretmus platyurus (Lichtenstein, 1823)
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Pygeretmus platyurus (Lichtenstein, 1823) View in CoL . Naturh. Abh. Eversmann's Reise, p. 121.

TYPE LOCALITY: Kazakhstan, E shore of Aral Sea, Kuwan-Darya River .

DISTRIBUTION: W, C, and E Kazakhstan.

SYNONYMS: platurus , vinogradovi (see Pavlinov and Rossolimo, 1987; and Shenbrot, 1988).

COMMENTS: Subgenus Pygeretmus . Corbet (1978c) and Gromov and Baranova (1981) synonymized P. vinogradovi with P. platyurus without comment. Heptner (1984) agreed because he felt the differences between the two forms were not sharp enough to warrant specific recognition, a view tentatively followed by Pavlinov and Rossolimo (1987). Shenbrot's (1988) results indicated that P. vinogradovi falls within the range of variation of P. platyurus , and that vinogradovi should not even be recognized at the subspecific level. Review and distribution map provided by Silverstov et al. (1969) and Sludskii (1977); detailed habitat data provided by Naumov and Lobachev (1975).

References

Corbet, G. B. 1978 c. The mammals of the Palaearctic region: A taxonomic review. British Museum (Natural History), London, 314 pp.

Gromov, I. M., and G. I. Baranova (eds.). 1981. Katalog mlekopitayushchikh SSSR [Catalog of mammals of the USSR]. Nauka, Leningrad, 456 pp. (in Russian).

Heptner, V. G. 1984. [Contributions to phylogeny and classification of jerboas (Dipodidae) of the fauna of the USSR]. Sbornik Trudov Zoologicheskovo Museya MGU, 22: 37 - 60 (in Russian).

Naumov, N. P., and V. S. Lobachev. 1975. Ecology of desert rodents of the U. S. S. R. (Jerboas and Gerbils). Pp. 465 - 598, in Rodents in desert environments (I. Prakash and P. K. Gosh, eds.). Monographiae Biologicae, 28: 1 - 624.

Pavlinov, I. Ya., and O. L. Rossolimo. 1987. Sistematika mlekopitayushchikh SSSR [Systematics of the mammals of the USSR.]. Moscow University Press, Moscow, 282 pp. (in Russian).

Shenbrot, G. I. 1988. Noviye danniye rasprostraneniyu i sistematikye tolstokhvostikh tushkanchikov [New data on the distribution and taxonomy of the fat-tailed jerboas, genus Pygeretmus]. Pp. 121 - 124, in Tushkanchiki fauni SSSR [Jerboas of the USSR fauna], vol. 2 (V. E., Sokolov, V. S. Lobachev, E. I. Naumova, R. R. Reimov, G. I. Shenbrot, and T. I. Dmitrieva, eds.). Tyezisi Dokladov Vesesoiuznovo soveshchaniye [Abstracts of the All-Union Conference], Nukus, Fan Press, Moscow, 139 pp. (in Russian).

Silverstov, V. B., V. S. Lobachev, and M. N. Shilov. 1969. [New data on the distribution and biology of Pygerethmus platyurus Licht.] Byulleten' Moskovskovo Obshchestva Ispytatelei Prirody, Otdel Biologicheskii, 74 (3): 118 - 133 (in Russian).

Sludskii, A. A. (ed.). 1977. Mlekopitayushchie Kazakhstana. Gryzuny (krome surkov, suslikov, zemlyanoi belki, peschanok i polevok) [Mammals of Kazakhstan. Rodents (except marmots, susliks, long clawed ground squirrels, gerbils and voles)]. Nauka, Kazakhskoi SSR, Alma-Ata, 1 (2): 1 - 536 (in Russian).