Meriones (Pallasiomys) unguiculatus Milne-Edwards 1867

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 1189-1531 : 1239

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Meriones (Pallasiomys) unguiculatus Milne-Edwards 1867
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Meriones (Pallasiomys) unguiculatus Milne-Edwards 1867 View in CoL

Meriones (Pallasiomys) unguiculatus Milne-Edwards 1867 View in CoL , Ann. Sci. Nat. Zool., ser. 7, 5: 377.

Type Locality: China, N Shanxi, 10 mi (16 km) NE of Tschang-Kur, Eul-che san hao (= Ershi san hao).

Vernacular Names: Mongolian Jird.

Synonyms: Meriones (Pallasiomys) chihfengensis Mori 1939 ; Meriones (Pallasiomys) koslovi (Satunin 1903) ; Meriones (Pallasiomys) kurauchii Mori 1930 ; Meriones (Pallasiomys) selenginus Heptner 1949 .

Distribution: Mongolia, and adjacent regions of Siberia (Transbaikalia) and of China from E Gansu, N Ningxia, N Shaanxi, N Shanxi, and Hebei, through C and N Nei Mongol and Liaoning (see Gromov and Erbajeva [1995], Wang [2003], and Zhang et al. [1997]).

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Subgenus Pallasiomys . Reviewed by G. M. Allen (1940), Corbet (1978 c), and Pavlinov et al. (1990). Corbet also included Xinjiang in the distribution of the species, but Ma et al. (1987) did not record it there. Spicer and Schulte (1994) documented cochlear structure at the cellular level. This study is an example of the many undertaken on this species, as this is the gerbil usually sold as pets and used in medical laboratories (Turton, 1984). Laboratory colonies were derived from twenty pairs captured in the Amur River basin in 1935, initially taken to Japan from which a colony was shipped to the United States, and from there others were distributed to Europe (Turton, 1984). Yang et al. (1992) described phallic morphology and contrasted it with that of M. meridianus . Cao et al. (1995) reported histology of the glans penis in M. unguiculatus and contrasted the pattern and morphology of its epidermal spines with M. meridianus and Rhombomys opimus , and commented upon the significance of the spines for discriminating among species. See Gulotta (1971, Mammalian Species, 3).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Muridae

Genus

Meriones

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Meriones (Pallasiomys) unguiculatus Milne-Edwards 1867

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn 2005
2005
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Meriones (Pallasiomys) unguiculatus

Milne-Edwards 1867: 377
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