Meriones unguiculatus (Milne-Edwards, 1867)

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 : 425

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scientific name	Meriones unguiculatus (Milne-Edwards, 1867)
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Meriones unguiculatus (Milne-Edwards, 1867) . Ann. Sci. Nat. Zool., ser. 5, 7:377.

TYPE LOCALITY: China, N. Shansi, 10 mi. (16 km) N. E. of Tschang-Kur, Eul-che san hao (=Ershi san hao), 45° 04' N., 126° 03' E GoogleMaps .

DISTRIBUTION: N. China west to Kansu and Sinkiang; Mongolia; Tuva and Buryat.- Mongolsk. A.S.S.R. ( U.S. S.R.).

COMMENT: Reviewed by Gulotta, 1971, Mamm. Species, 3: 1 -5. Type locality restricted by Chaworth-Musters and Ellerman, 1947, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1947- 1948:483. The pet and laboratory strains of Mongolian gerbil were derived from this species; see Corbet, 1978:126.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301410008092012001.

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Mammalia
Order	Rodentia
Family	Cricetidae
Genus	Meriones