Allactaga (Allactaga) firouzi Womochel 1978

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Dipodidae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 871-893 : 875

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scientific name	Allactaga (Allactaga) firouzi Womochel 1978
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Allactaga (Allactaga) firouzi Womochel 1978 View in CoL

Allactaga (Allactaga) firouzi Womochel 1978 View in CoL , Fieldiana Zool., 72 (5): 65.

Type Locality: Iran, Isfahan Prov., 18 mi (29 km) S Shah Reza (Qomisheh), 2253 m.

Vernacular Names: Iranian Jerboa.

Distribution: Known only from the type locality, a flat plain with a gravel substrate and sparse, mountain steppe vegetation ( Womochel, 1978).

Conservation: IUCN – Critically Endangered.

Discussion: Subgenus Allactaga (not allocated to subgenus by Shenbrot, 1984). Allactaga firouzi appears to be morphologically distinct from A. euphratica and A. hotsoni ( Womochel, 1978) , but its relationship with these and other species of allactagines needs further study. Shenbrot (1993) tenatively synonymized firouzi with A. elater turkmeni , but later (in litt.) examinied the type specimen and considered firouzi synonymous with hotsoni , which is where Pavlinov et al. (1995) listed it. We recognize the species until published data indicates otherwise.

References

Shenbrot, G. I. 1984. [Dental morphology and phylogeny of five-toed jerboas of the subfamily Allactaginae.] Sbornik Trudov Zoologicheskovo Museya MGU, 22: 61 - 92 (in Russian).

Shenbrot, G. I. 1993 [1991]. [Revision of subspecies systematics of jerboas of the genus Allactaga of the USSR fauna.] Trudy Zoologicheskovo Instituta, Akademiya Nauk SSSR, 243: 81 - 109 (in Russian with English abstract).

Womochel, D. R. 1978. A new species of Allactaga (Rodentia: Dipodidae) from Iran. Fieldiana: Zoology, 72 (5): 65 - 73.