Tamarisk Jird

Tamarisk Jird
Tamarisk Jird
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Muridae
Genus: Meriones
Subgenus: Meriones
Illiger, 1811
Species: M. tamariscinus
Binomial name
Meriones tamariscinus
(Pallas, 1773)

The Tamarisk Jird (Meriones tamariscinus) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found in China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.

References

  • Baillie, J. 1996. Meriones tamariscinus. 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.



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