Dipus sagitta (Pallas 1773)

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 : 882

Dipus sagitta (Pallas 1773)

[Mus] sagitta Pallas 1773 , Reise Prov. Russ. Reichs, Vol. 2: 706.

Type Locality: N Kazakhstan, Pavlodarskaya Oblast, right bank of Irtysh River near Yamyshevskaya at Podpusknoi (see Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951:535).

Vernacular Names: Northern Three-toed Jerboa.

Synonyms: Dipus aksuensis Wang 1964 ; Dipus austrouralensis Shenbrot 1991 ; Dipus bulganensis Shenbrot 1991 ; Dipus deasyi Barrett-Hamilton 1900 ; Dipus fuscocanus Wang 1964 ; Dipus halli Sowerby 1920 ; Dipus innae (Ognev 1930) ; Dipus kalmikensis Kazantseva 1940 ; Dipus lagopus Lichtenstein 1823 ; Dipus megacranius Shenbrot 1991 ; Dipus nogai Satunin 1907 ; Dipus sowerbyi Thomas 1908 ; Dipus turanicus Shenbrot 1991 ; Dipus ubsanensis Bannikov 1947 ; Dipus usuni Shenbrot 1991 ; Dipus zaissanensis Selevin 1934 .

Distribution: Desert, steppe and dry woodland from Don River ( Russia), NW coast of Caspian Sea, and N Iran, through Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan to S Tuva, Russia; Mongolia ( Bannikov, 1954); China (Nei Mongol, Xinjiang, Qinghai, Gansu, Ningxia, N Shaanxi, N Shanxi, Liaoning, and Jilin; see Chen and Wang, 1985; Liu et al., 1990; Ma et al., 1987; Mi et al., 1990; Qian et al., 1965; Qin, 1991; Shou, 1962; Wang, 1990, 2003; Zhang and Wang, 1963; Zheng and Zhang, 1990; and Zhou et al., 1985; Zhang et al., 1997, provide map for Chinese range); see Shenbrot et al. (1995).

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Karyotype described by Vorontsov et al. (1969 d). Taxonomic study, analysis of geographic variation, and distribution throughout most of range provided by Shenbrot (1991 a, c). Reviewed by Gromov and Erbajeva (1995), Ognev (1963 b), and Shenbrot et al. (1995). For synonyms see Corbet (1984), Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951), Pavlinov and Rossolimo (1987), Shenbrot (1991a, c), and Wang (1964).