Pygeretmus pumilio (Kerr, 1792)

Mary Ellen Holden, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Dipodidae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 487-499 : 490-491

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scientific name	Pygeretmus pumilio (Kerr, 1792)
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Pygeretmus pumilio (Kerr, 1792) View in CoL . In Linnaeus, Anim. Kingdom, p. 275.

TYPE LOCALITY: Kazakhstan, between Caspian Sea and Irtysh River. Pavlinov and Rossolimo (1987) incorrectly listed Kirghiz Steppe as the type locality for this species .

DISTRIBUTION: From the Don River ( Russia) through Kazakhstan to the Irtysh River ( Kuznetsov, 1965; Sludskii, 1977), south to NE Iran ( Lay, 1967); E to S Mongolia ( Bannikov, 1954); China: W Nei Mongol ( Ma et al., 1987), N Xinjiang ( Ma et al., 1987; Chen and Wang, 1985), and probably Ningxia.

SYNONYMS: acontion , aralensis, dinniki, minor, minutus , pallidus , potanini, pygmaeus, sibericus , tanaiticus, turcomanus (see Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951; and Corbet, 1978c).

COMMENTS: Subgenus Alactagulus (see Pavlinov and Rossolimo, 1987). The name pygmaeus is preoccupied and is an invalid junior synonym of pumilio , (see Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951; and Corbet, 1978c). Reviewed by Ognev (1963b). Detailed habitat data provided by Naumov and Lobachev (1975).

References

Bannikov, A. G. 1954. Mlekopitayushchie Mongol'skoi Narodnoi Respubliki. [Mammals of the Mongolian People's Republic]. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Moscow, 669 pp. (in Russian).

Chen Jun, and Wang Ding-guo. 1985. [A preliminary survey on geographical distribution of the rodents in Hexi corridor, Gansu province]. Acta Theriologica Sinica, 5 (3): 195 - 200 (in Chinese).

Corbet, G. B. 1978 c. The mammals of the Palaearctic region: A taxonomic review. British Museum (Natural History), London, 314 pp.

Ellerman, J. R., and T. C. S. Morrison-Scott. 1951. Checklist of Palaearctic and Indian mammals 1758 to 1946. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 810 pp.

Kuznetsov, B. A. 1965. Ordo Rodentia. Pp. 236 - 346, in Opredelitel' mlekopitayushchikh SSSR [Guide to the mammals of the USSR] (Bobrinskii, N. A., Kuznetsov, B. A. and A. P. Kuzyakin, eds.). Second edition. Proveshchenie, Moscow, 382 pp. (in Russian).

Lay, D. M. 1967. A study of the mammals of Iran resulting from the Street expedition of 1962 - 63. Fieldiana: Zoology, 54: 1 - 282.

Ma Yong, Wang Feng-gui, Jin Shan-ke, and Li Si-hua. 1987. [Glires (rodents and lagomorphs) of Northern Xinjiang and their zoogeographical distribution.] Science Press, Academia Sinica, Beijing, 274 pp. (in Chinese).

Naumov, N. P., and V. S. Lobachev. 1975. Ecology of desert rodents of the U. S. S. R. (Jerboas and Gerbils). Pp. 465 - 598, in Rodents in desert environments (I. Prakash and P. K. Gosh, eds.). Monographiae Biologicae, 28: 1 - 624.

Ognev, S. I. 1963 b. Mammals of the USSR and adjacent countries: Rodents (continued). (Mammals of eastern Europe and northern Asia) [A translation of S. I. Ognev, 1948, Zveri SSSR i prilezhashchikh stran: Gryzuny (prodolzhenie). (Zveri vostochnoi Evropy i severnoi Azii)]. Israel Program for Scientific Translations, Jerusalem, 6: 1 - 508.

Pavlinov, I. Ya., and O. L. Rossolimo. 1987. Sistematika mlekopitayushchikh SSSR [Systematics of the mammals of the USSR.]. Moscow University Press, Moscow, 282 pp. (in Russian).

Sludskii, A. A. (ed.). 1977. Mlekopitayushchie Kazakhstana. Gryzuny (krome surkov, suslikov, zemlyanoi belki, peschanok i polevok) [Mammals of Kazakhstan. Rodents (except marmots, susliks, long clawed ground squirrels, gerbils and voles)]. Nauka, Kazakhskoi SSR, Alma-Ata, 1 (2): 1 - 536 (in Russian).