Meriones unguiculatus

Meriones unguiculatus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Muroidea
Main Page Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Chordata Craniata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Superclassis: Tetrapoda Classis: Mammalia Subclassis: Theria Infraclassis: Placentalia Ordo: Rodentia Subordo: Myomorpha Superfamilia: Muroidea

Familia: Muridae
Subfamilia: Gerbillinae
Genus: Meriones
Species: Meriones unguiculatus

Name

Meriones unguiculatus (Milne-Edwards, 1867)

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

Synonyms

• Gerbillus unguiculatus Milne-Edwards, 1867
• Meriones koslovi (Satunin, 1903)
• Meriones kurauchii Mori, 1930
• Meriones chihfengensis Mori, 1939
• Pallasiomys unguiculatus selenginus Heptner, 1949

References

• Milne-Edwards, M. H. 1867. Observations sur quelques mammiferes du nord de la Chine. Annales Des Sciences Naturelles comprenant la zoologie, ser. 7, 5: 377.
• Satunin, K. A. 1903. Neue Nagetiere aus Centralasien. Annuaire du Musee Zoologique de l'Academie d. Sciences de St. Petersbourg, 7: 553.
• Mori, T. 1929-1930. On four new small mammals from Manchuria. Annotationes Zoologicae Japonensis, 12: 417.
• Mori, T. 1939. Mammalia of Jehol and district north of it. Report of the first scientific expedition to Manchoukuo, sect. 5, div. 2, 4: 30.
• Heptner, W. G. 1949. Notes on gerbills (Gerbillidae, Glires). XIV. New data on the distribution and geographical variation on the Mongolian gerbil. Bulletin of the Moscow Society for the Study of Nature, 54: 303.
• Gulotta, E. F. 1971. Meriones unguiculatus. Mammalian Species, 3: 1-5.
• Kaneko, Y., and K. Maeda. 2002. A list of scientific names and the types of mammals published by Japanese researchers. Mammalian Science, 42(1): 1-21. Abstract

Links

• Meriones unguiculatus in Mammal Species of the World.
  Don E. Wilson & DeeAnn M. Reeder (eds) (2005). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed).
• IUCN link: Meriones unguiculatus (Milne-Edwards, 1867) (Least Concern)
• Meriones unguiculatus (Milne-Edwards, 1867) Report on ITIS

Vernacular names

English: Mongolian Gerbil, Mongolian Jird
Polski: Suwak mongolski
Suomi: Mongoliangerbiili, mongolianhyppymyyrä
Svenska: Vanlig ökenråtta