Hotson's Jerboa

Taxobox
name = Hotson's Jerboa


status = LR/lc | status_system = IUCN2.3
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
familia = Dipodidae
genus = "Allactaga"
subgenus = "Allactaga"
species = "A. hotsoni"
binomial = "Allactaga hotsoni"
binomial_authority = Thomas, 1920
synonyms =

Hotson's Jerboa ("Allactaga hotsoni") is a species of rodent in the Dipodidae family.It is found in Afghanistan, Iran, and Pakistan. Named by Oldfield Thomas after John Ernest Buttery Hotson who collected specimens in Baluchistan during 1918-1920.

References

* Baillie, J. 1996. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/856/all Allactaga hotsoni] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 29 July 2007.
*Holden, M. E. and G. G. Musser. 2005. 'Family Dipodidae', "Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference", D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, pp. 871-893.
* Thomas, Oldfield. 1920. 'Some new Mammals from Baluchistan and North-West India', "Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society", vol. 26, no. 4, pp. 936-937.