Allactaga (Allactaga) elater (Lichtenstein 1825)

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

Allactaga (Allactaga) elater (Lichtenstein 1825)

[Dipus] elater Lichtenstein 1825 , Abh. K. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1825: 155.

Type Locality: W Kazakhstan, Kirgiz Steppe. The type locality given by Lichtenstein (1828) is in W Kazakhstan, according to Vinogradov (1937), Kuznetsov (1944, 1965), and Ognev (1963 b), not E Kazakhstan as reported by Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951:529) and Corbet (1978 c:154) .

Vernacular Names: Small Five-toed Jerboa.

Synonyms: Allactaga (Allactaga) aralychensis Satunin 1901 ; Allactaga (Allactaga) bactriana Blyth 1863 ; Allactaga (Allactaga) caucasicus Nehring 1900 ; Allactaga (Allactaga) dzungariae Thomas 1912 ; Allactaga (Allactaga) heptneri Pavlenko and Denisov 1976 ; Allactaga (Allactaga) indica Gray 1842 ; Allactaga (Allactaga) kizljaricus Satunin 1907 ; Allactaga (Allactaga) strandi Hepner 1934 ; Allactaga (Allactaga) turkmeni Goodwin 1940 ; Allactaga (Allactaga) zaisanicus Shenbrot 1993 .

Distribution: SW Pakistan ( Roberts, 1977, 1997); Afghanistan ( Hassinger, 1973); Iran ( Lay, 1967); E Turkey (Kryštufek and Vohralík, 2001); Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, N Caucasus, north along W Caspian Sea to Lower Volga south to Turkmenistan, east through Kazakhstan (see Kuznetsov, 1965; Sludskii, 1977; and Shenbrot, 1993) to NE Xinjiang, Nei Mongol, and N Gansu, China ( Ma et al., 1987; Chinese range mapped in Zhang et al., 1997), and western Mongolia ( Sokolov and Orlov, 1980), in desert and semi-desert zones. Overall range mapped in Shenbrot et al. (1995).

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Subgenus Allactaga . Does not include vinogradovi (see comment therein). Detailed review provided by Ognev (1963 b). Karyotype contributed by Vorontsov et al. (1969 c). Subspecific revision and additional distributional data provided by Shenbrot (1993). Segments in Russia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan reviewed by Gromov and Erbajeva (1995) and Shenbrot et al. (1995). Shenbrot (in litt., 2003) is skeptical about distribution of this species in Nei Mongol, and N Gansu, China due to possible misidentification with Pygeretmus pumilio . For synonyms see Corbet (1978c, 1984) and Shenbrot (1993).