Meriones Illiger, 1811

James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 3), Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA: Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections, pp. 392-476 : 423-424

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7206660
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scientific name	Meriones Illiger, 1811
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Meriones Illiger, 1811 . Prodr. Syst. Mamm. et Avium., p. 82.

REVIEWED BY: D. M. Lay (DML); C. B. Robbins (CBR); O. L. Rossolimo (OLR); S. Wang (SW).

COMMENT: Formerly included Sekeetamys ; see Petter, 1956, Mammalia, 20:419-426, Petter, 1975, Part 6.3:4, and Corbet, 1978:124. Reviewed by Chaworth-Musters and Ellerman, 1947, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1947- 1948:478-504; Arabian species reviewed by Harrison, 1972, The Mammals of Arabia, 3:559-593; African species are in need of revision (see Corbet, 1978:125). Sokolov and Orlov, 1980:156, included Brachiones przewalskii in Meriones , without comment; but see Corbet, 1978:128. Subfamily Gerbillinae ; see comment under Cricetidae .

ISIS NUMBER: 5301410008092000000.

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Mammalia
Order	Rodentia
Family	Cricetidae