Meriones dahli Shidlovsky, 1962

Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 501-755 : 556

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Meriones dahli Shidlovsky, 1962 View in CoL . Definition Rodents Zakabkaziya, p. 115.

TYPE LOCALITY: Armenia, Sadarak steppe, foothills of Vardanis (Saraibulak) Ridge .

DISTRIBUTION: Local occurrence in sandy habitats in Armenia.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Pallasiomys . Included in M. meridianus by Corbet (1978c) but shown to be a separate species by Dyatlov and Avanyan (1987), whose results were based on morphological, biochemical, and chromosomal traits, as well as interbreeding experiments. Reviewed by Pavlinov et al. (1990).