Allactaga major (Kerr, 1792)

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 : 489

Allactaga major (Kerr, 1792) . In Linnaeus, Anim. Kingdom, p. 274.

TYPE LOCALITY: Kazakhstan, between Caspian Sea and Irtysh River .

DISTRIBUTION: Steppes and deserts from Caucasus N to Moscow and Kiev E to Ob River (W Siberia), Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan; figured by Kuznetsov (1965) and Sludskii (1977).

SYNONYMS: brachyotis, chachlovi, decumanus , djetysuensis, flavescens, fuscus, hochlovi, intermedius, jaculus , macrotis, nigricans, spiculum , vexillarius (see Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951; Corbet, 1978c; and Shenbrot, 19914).

COMMENTS: Subgenus Allactaga . A. jaculus Pallas is a junior synonym (see Ognev, 1963b:94; Pavlinov and Rossolimo, 1987:154). Subspecific revision and additional distributional data provided by Shenbrot (19914). Karyotype contributed by Vorontsov et al. (1969c). Reviewed by Ognev (1963b). Detailed habitat data provided by Naumov and Lobachev (1975).