Cardiocranius paradoxus Satunin, 1903

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 : 491

Cardiocranius paradoxus Satunin, 1903 . Ann. Mus. Zool. Acad. Imp. Sci. St. Petersbourg, 7:584.

TYPE LOCALITY: China, NW Gansu, Nan Shan, Shargol-Dzhin .

DISTRIBUTION: China: N Xinjiang, W Nei Mongol, N Ningxia, and Gansu (see Chen and Wang, 1985; Ma et al., 1987; Mi et al., 1990; Qin, 1991; and Zhou et al., 1985); Mongolia; S Tuvinskaya Oblast, and E Kazakhstan (see Sokolov and Shenbrot,1988).

COMMENTS: A morphometric study by Sokolov and Shenbrot (1988) indicated that the Kazakhstan population falls within the range of intraspecific variation for C. paradoxus , and is not a separate species as was suggested by Gromov and Baranova (1981). For detailed habitat data see Naumov and Lobachev (1975).