Meriones vinogradovi Heptner, 1931 . Zool. Anz., 94:122.

TYPE LOCALITY: Iran, Persian Azarbaidjan .

DISTRIBUTION: SE Turkey, N Syria, N Iran, and Armenia and Azerbaijan (see Harrison and Bates, 1991).

COMMENTS: Subgenus Pallasiomys . A distinctive species (Pavlinov and Rossolimo, 1987) that was reviewed by Harrison and Bates (1991). The Iranian population was reviewed by Lay (1967).