Allactaga (Allactaga) major (Kerr 1792)

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 : 876

Allactaga (Allactaga) major (Kerr 1792)

[Dipus] major Kerr 1792 , in: Linnaeus, Anim. Kingdom: 274.

Type Locality: Kazakhstan, between Caspian Sea and Irtysh River.

Vernacular Names: Great Jerboa.

Synonyms: Allactaga (Allactaga) aulacotis (Wagner 1840) ; Allactaga (Allactaga) brachyotis Brandt 1844 ; Allactaga (Allactaga) chachlovi Martino 1921 ; Allactaga (Allactaga) decumanus (Lichtenstein 1825) ; Allactaga (Allactaga) djetysuensis Shenbrot 1993 ; Allactaga (Allactaga) flavescens Brandt 1844 ; Allactaga (Allactaga) fuscus Ognev 1924 ; Allactaga (Allactaga) hochlovi Martino 1922 ; Allactaga (Allactaga) intermedius Ognev 1948 ; Allactaga (Allactaga) nigricans Brandt 1844 ; Allactaga (Allactaga) spiculum (Lichtenstein 1825) ; Allactaga (Allactaga) vexillarius (Eversmann 1840) .

Distribution: Steppes and deserts from Caucasus N to Moscow and Kiev E to Ob River (W Siberia), Kazakhstan, and N Uzbekistan (west of Aral Sea), and W Xinjiang, China ( Wang, 2003); range figured by Kuznetsov (1965), Shenbrot et al. (1995), and Sludskii (1977).

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Subgenus Allactaga . Includes jaculus Pallas ( Ognev, 1963 b:94; Pavlinov and Rossolimo, 1987:154). Subspecific revision and additional distributional data provided by Shenbrot (1993). Karyotype contributed by Vorontsov et al. (1969 c). Reviewed by Ognev (1963 b), Gromov and Erbajeva (1995), and Shenbrot et al. (1995). Detailed habitat data provided by Naumov and Lobachev (1975). Although modern western margins of range are near Moscow and Kiev, the species occurred as far west as Germany and Austria during the Pleistocene ( Kowalski, 2001). For synonyms see Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951), Corbet (1978c), and Shenbrot (1991d).