Persian Jird

Taxobox
name = Persian Jird
status = LR/lc | status_system = IUCN2.3
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
familia = Muridae
genus = "Meriones"
subgenus = "Parameriones"
species = "M. persicus"
binomial = "Meriones persicus"
binomial_authority = (Blanford, 1875)
synonyms = The Persian Jird ("Meriones persicus") is a species of rodent in the Muridae family.It is found in Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Turkey, and Turkmenistan.

References

* Baillie, J. 1996. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/13166/all Meriones persicus] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 19 July 2007.
*Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. Pp. 894-1531 "in" Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.