Blanfordimys afghanus (Thomas 1912)

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Cricetidae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 955-1189 : 966

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.7316535

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/8A24AA1C-9F75-9ACB-D99A-61856542FA33

treatment provided by

Guido

scientific name

Blanfordimys afghanus (Thomas 1912)
status

 

Blanfordimys afghanus (Thomas 1912)

[Blanfordimys] afghanus (Thomas 1912) , Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 9: 349.

Type Locality: Afghanistan, Badkhiz, Gulran.

Vernacular Names: Afghan Vole.

Synonyms: Blanfordimys afganensis Agadzhanyan and Yatsenko 1984 ; Blanfordimys balchanensis (Heptner and Shukurov 1950) ; Blanfordimys dangarinensis Golenishchev and Sablina 1991 .

Distribution: High steppes and semi-desert in S Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and C Afghanistan; isolated population in Great Balkhan Mtns on E coast of Caspian Sea.

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Taxonomy and distribution of Afghanistan populations reported by Niethammer (1970) and Hassinger (1973), karyotype (2n = 58, FN = 60 or 61) documented by Lyapunova and Zagorodnyuk (1990), and morphometric and karyological analyses provided by Golenishchev and Sablina (1991), who recognized three subspecies.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Cricetidae

Genus

Blanfordimys

Loc

Blanfordimys afghanus (Thomas 1912)

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn 2005
2005
Loc

[Blanfordimys] afghanus (Thomas 1912)

Thomas 1912: 349
1912
Darwin Core Archive (for parent article) View in SIBiLS Plain XML RDF