Meriones (Pallasiomys) arimalius Cheesman and Hinton 1924

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 1189-1531 : 1234

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

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11334218

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scientific name

Meriones (Pallasiomys) arimalius Cheesman and Hinton 1924
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Meriones (Pallasiomys) arimalius Cheesman and Hinton 1924 View in CoL

Meriones (Pallasiomys) arimalius Cheesman and Hinton 1924 View in CoL , Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 9, 14: 554.

Type Locality: Saudi Arabia, Yabrin (Jabrin), Djebel Agoula.

Vernacular Names: Arabian Jird.

Distribution: "Northern sands of the Rub al Khali in Saudi Arabia and Oman " ( Harrison and Bates, 1991:297).

Conservation: IUCN – Endangered.

Discussion: Subgenus Pallasiomys . Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951) listed arimalius as a valid species, but it was later included in M. libycus ( Corbet, 1978 c; Harrison and Bates, 1991). Pavlinov et al. (1990:294) reinstated arimalius as a separate species and reviewed its salient characters. Even from the terse description of its diagnostic traits provided by Harrison and Bates (1991:297), who recognized the form as a subspecies of M. libycus , it is evident that arimalius is morphologically different from populations of lybicus north of it in Saudi Arabia. The species was also considered distinct by Nadler and Lay (1967).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Muridae

Genus

Meriones

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Meriones (Pallasiomys) arimalius Cheesman and Hinton 1924

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

Meriones (Pallasiomys) arimalius

Cheesman and Hinton 1924: 554
1924
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