Tristram's Jird

Tristram's Jird
Tristram's Jird
Tristam's Jird in southeastern Turkey
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Muridae
Genus: Meriones
Subgenus: Pallasiomys
Species: M. tristrami
Binomial name
Meriones tristrami
Thomas, 1892

Tristram's Jird (Meriones tristrami) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and Turkey.

References

  • Baillie, J. 1996. Meriones tristrami. 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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