Stylodipus telum (Lichtenstein 1823)

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Dipodidae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 871-893 : 885

Stylodipus telum (Lichtenstein 1823)

[Dipus] telum Lichtenstein 1823 , Naturhist. Anhang (or Eversmann's Reise Orenburg): 120.

Type Locality: Kazakhstan, steppe along NE shore of Aral Sea ( Ognev, 1963 b:303) .

Vernacular Names: Thick-tailed Three-toed Jerboa.

Synonyms: Stylodipus amankaragai (Selewin 1934) ; Stylodipus birulae (Martino 1922) ; Stylodipus falzfeini (Brauner 1913) ; Stylodipus halticus ( Brandt 1844) ; Stylodipus karelini (Selewin 1934) ; Stylodipus nastjukovi Shenbrot 1991 ; Stylodipus proximus (Fairmaire 1853) ; Stylodipus turovi ( Heptner 1934) .

Distribution: E Ukraine, N Caucasus, W Turkmenistan, W Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan ( Kuznetsov, 1965; Shenbrot, 1991 b); E to N Xinjiang, China (see Chen and Wang, 1985; Ma et al., 1987; Mi et al., 1990; Qian et al., 1965; Shou, 1962; Wang, 2003; and Zheng and Zhang, 1990; but see comment below; Chinese range mapped by Zhang et al., 1997). See Shenbrot et al. (1995) for overall distribution.

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Reviewed by Gromov and Erbajeva (1995), Ognev (1963 b) and Shenbrot et al. (1995); subspecific revision contributed by Shenbrot (1991 b). Karyotype provided by Vorontsov et al. (1969 d). Because S. andrewsi is considered a synonym of S. telum by some workers, some of the earlier published records of S. telum from China represent S. andrewsi . Wang (2003) records S. telum only from N Xinjiang. See comments under S. andrewsi and S. sungorus . European Pleistocene records reviewed by Kowalski (2001). For synonyms see Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951), Shenbrot (1991b), Shenbrot et al. (1995).