Allactaga (Orientallactaga) sibirica (Forster 1778)

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 : 877

Allactaga (Orientallactaga) sibirica (Forster 1778)

[Orientallactaga] sibirica Forster 1778 , K. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Handl. Stockholm, 39: 112.

Type Locality: SE Transbaikalia, Chitinskaya Oblast, near Lake Tarei-Nur.

Vernacular Names: Mongolian Five-toed Jerboa.

Synonyms: Allactaga (Orientallactaga) alactaga (Olivier 1800) ; Allactaga (Orientallactaga) alpinus Shnitnikov 1936 ; Allactaga (Orientallactaga) altorum Ognev 1946 ; Allactaga (Orientallactaga) annulata Milne-Edwards 1867 ; Allactaga (Orientallactaga) brachyurus (Blainville 1817) ; Allactaga (Orientallactaga) bulganensis Shenbrot 1993 ; Allactaga (Orientallactaga) dementiewi Toktosunov 1958 ; Allactaga (Orientallactaga) grisescens Hollister 1912 ; Allactaga (Orientallactaga) halticus (Illiger 1825) ; Allactaga (Orientallactaga) longior (Miller 1911) ; Allactaga (Orientallactaga) media (Pallas 1779) ; Allactaga (Orientallactaga) mongolica (Radde 1861) ; Allactaga (Orientallactaga) ognevi Shenbrot 1991 ; Allactaga (Orientallactaga) ruckbeili Thomas 1914 ; Allactaga (Orientallactaga) salicus Ognev 1924 ; Allactaga (Orientallactaga) saliens (Gmelin 1760) ; Allactaga (Orientallactaga) saliens (Shaw 1790) ; Allactaga (Orientallactaga) saltator (Eversmann 1848) ; Allactaga (Orientallactaga) semideserta Bannikov 1947 ; Allactaga (Orientallactaga) suschkini Satunin 1900 .

Distribution: From lower Ural River ( Kazakhstan) and Caspian Sea east to Chitinskaya Oblast and south to N Turkmenistan ( Kuznetsov, 1965; Shenbrot, 1993; Sludskii, 1977); Mongolia ( Bannikov, 1954); China: Nei Mongol, Xinjiang, Qinghai, Gansu, Nigxia, Shaanxi, Shanxi, N Hebei, W Liaoning, W Julin, and W Heilongjiang (in China see Ho et al., 1986; Laing and Zhang, 1985; Liu et al., 1990; Ma et al., 1987; Mi et al., 1990; Qin, 1991; Shou, 1962; Zhang and Wang, 1963; Wang, 2003; Zhang et al., 1997; and Zheng and Zhang, 1990); Shenbrot et al. (1995) provided overall distribution map; no valid record from Korea (see Corbet, 1978 c:154).

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Subgenus Orientallactaga . Reviewed by Gromov and Erbajeva (1995), Ognev (1963 b), and Shenbrot et al. (1995). Subspecific revision and additional distributional data provided by Shenbrot (1993). Geographic variation studied by Varshavsky (1991). Karyotype described by Vorontsov et al. (1969 c). Detailed habitat data provided by Naumov and Lobachev (1975). For synonyms see Ellerman (1940), Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951), Corbet (1978c, 1984), Pavlinov and Rossolimo (1987, 1998), Shenbrot (1993), and Shenbrot et al. (1995).