Meriones (Pallasiomys) zarudnyi Heptner 1937

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 : 1240

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scientific name	Meriones (Pallasiomys) zarudnyi Heptner 1937
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Meriones (Pallasiomys) zarudnyi Heptner 1937 View in CoL

Meriones (Pallasiomys) zarudnyi Heptner 1937 View in CoL , Byull. Moskow Ova. Ispyt. Prir. Otd. Biol., 46: 19.

Type Locality: Turkmenistan, Kushka (Afghanistan-Turkmenistan border).

Vernacular Names: Zarudny's Jird.

Distribution: NE Iran, N Afghanistan, and S Turkmenistan.

Conservation: IUCN – Endangered.

Discussion: Subgenus Pallasiomys . Reviewed by Corbet (1978 c) and Pavlinov et al. (1990) and listed by Pavlinov and Rossolimo (1987) as a distinctive species. The Afghanistan population was reviewed by Hassinger (1973), the E Anatolian by Yi it et al. (1997), and segment in Turkmenistan by Gromov and Erbajeva (1995).