Rhombomys opimus (Lichtenstein, 1823)

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 : 559

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scientific name	Rhombomys opimus (Lichtenstein, 1823)
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Rhombomys opimus (Lichtenstein, 1823) View in CoL . Naturh. Abh. Eversmann's Reise, p. 122.

TYPE LOCALITY: Kazakhstan, Kzyl-Ordinskaya, KaraKumy Desert (see Pavlinov and Rossolimo, 1987) .

DISTRIBUTION: From S Mongolia through Ningxia, Gansu, and Xinjiang in China to Kazakhstan, Iran, Afghanistan, and SW Pakistan ( Corbet, 1978c; Ma et al., 1987).

SYNONYMS: alaschanicus, dalversinicus, funicolor, giganteus , nigrescens , pallidus , pevzovi, sargadensis, sodalis .

COMMENTS: Citations for synonyms were referenced by Pavlinov and Rossolimo (1987). Reviewed by Pavlinov et al. (1990). Regional reviews cover Pakistan ( Roberts, 1977), Iran ( Lay, 1967), Afghanistan ( Hassinger, 1973), and Xinjiang ( Ma et al., 1987).