Allactaga (Orientallactaga) balikunica Hsia and Fang 1964

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Dipodidae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 871-893 : 874

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Allactaga (Orientallactaga) balikunica Hsia and Fang 1964 , Acta Zootaxon. Sinica, 6: 16.

Type Locality: China, Xinjiang, Balikun.

Vernacular Names: Balikun Jerboa.

Synonyms: Allactaga (Orientallactaga) nataliae Sokolov 1981 .

Distribution: Mongolia, from Altai Sumon east to Bordzon-Gobi ( Sokolov et al., 1981 a), and NE Xinjiang, China ( Ma et al., 1987).

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Subgenus Orientallactaga . Closely related to A. bullata , with which it is parapatric in S Mongolia where the two species occur together in a narrow strip several kilometers wide (G. Shenbrot, in litt., 2003). Listed as a subspecies of A. bullata by Wang (2003).