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Meriones persicus

Description

Meriones persicus (Blanford, 1875). Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 4, 16:312.

TYPE LOCALITY: Iran, Kohrud, N of Isfahan.

DISTRIBUTION: From Iran, adjacent regions of Transcaucasia, Turkey, Iraq, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan and Pakistan (W of Indus River).

SYNONYMS: ambrosius, baptistae, gurganensis, rossicus, suschkini.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Parameriones. Regional studies available for the Middle East (Harrison and Bates, 1991), Pakistan (Roberts, 1977), Afghanistan (Hassinger, 1973), and Iran (Lay, 1967).

Notes

Published as part of Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, pp. 501-755 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 557, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098

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Biodiversity

Family
Muridae
Genus
Meriones
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Rodentia
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Blanford
Species
persicus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Meriones persicus (Blanford, 1875) sec. Musser & Carleton, 1993

References

  • Harrison, D. L., and P. J. J. Bates. 1991. The mammals of Arabia, Second ed. Harrison Zoological Museum, Sevenoaks, United Kingdom, 354 pp.
  • Roberts, T. J. 1977. The mammals of Pakistan. Ernest Benn Limited, London, 361 pp.
  • Hassinger, J. D. 1973. A survey of the mammals of Afghanistan resulting from the 1965 Street Expedition (excluding bats). Fieldiana: Zoology, 60: 1 - 195.
  • Lay, D. M. 1967. A study of the mammals of Iran resulting from the Street expedition of 1962 - 63. Fieldiana: Zoology, 54: 1 - 282.