Dipus sagitta (Pallas, 1773)

Mary Ellen Holden, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Dipodidae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 487-499 : 492-493

Dipus sagitta (Pallas, 1773) . Reise Prov. Russ. Reichs., 2:706.

TYPE LOCALITY: N Kazakhstan, Pavlodarskaya Oblast, right bank of Irtysh River near Yamyshevskaya at Podpusknoi (see Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951:535) .

DISTRIBUTION: Desert, steppe and dry woodland from Don River ( Russia), NW coast of Caspian Sea, and N Iran, through Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan to S Tuva, Russia; Mongolia ( Bannikov, 1954); China: Nei Mongol, Xinjiang, Qinghai, Gansu, Ningxia, N Shaanxi, N Shanxi, Liaoning, and Jilin (see Chen and Wang, 1985; Liu et al., 1990; Ma et al., 1987; Mi et al., 1990; Qian et al., 1965; Qin, 1991; Shou, 1962; Wang, 1990; Zhang and Wang, 1963; Zheng and Zhang, 1990; and Zhou et al., 1985).

SYNONYMS: aksuensis, austrouralensis, bulganensis, deasyi , fuscocanus, halli , innae, kalmikensis, lagopus , megacranius, nogai , sowerbyi , turanicus, ubsanensis, usuni, zaissanensis (see Corbet, 1984; Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951; Pavlinov and Rossolimo, 1987; Shenbrot, 1991«, c; and Wang, 1964).

COMMENTS: Karyotype provided by Vorontsov et al. (1969d). Reviewed by Ognev (1963b). Taxonomic study, analysis of geographic variation, and distribution throughout most of range provided by Shenbrot (1991«, c). Detailed habitat data provided by Naumov and Lobachev (1975).