Heptner's Pygmy Jerboa

Taxobox
name = Heptner's Pygmy Jerboa


status = LR/nt | status_system = IUCN2.3
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
familia = Dipodidae
genus = "Salpingotus"
subgenus = "Prosalpingotus"
species = "S. heptneri"
binomial = "Salpingotus heptneri"
binomial_authority = Vorontsov & Smirnov, 1969
synonyms =

Heptner's Pygmy Jerboa ("Salpingotus heptneri") is a species of rodent in the Dipodidae family. It is found in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and possibly Russia. Its natural habitat is temperate desert.

References

* Baillie, J. 1996. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/19864/all Salpingotus heptneri] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 30 July 2007.
*Holden, M. E. and G. G. Musser. 2005. Family Dipodidae. Pp. 871-893 "in" Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.