Pygeretmus shitkovi (Kuznetsov, 1930)

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

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scientific name	Pygeretmus shitkovi (Kuznetsov, 1930)
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Pygeretmus shitkovi (Kuznetsov, 1930) View in CoL . Doklady Acad. Nauk S.S.S.R., Leningrad, 1930A:623.

TYPE LOCALITY: SE Kazakhstan, Taldy-Kurgan district, on NW shore of Ala-Kul (Alakol) Lake, Rybalnoje .

DISTRIBUTION: E Kazakhstan, in region of Lake Balkhash ( Corbet, 1978c; Kuznetsov, 1965; Sludskii, 1977).

SYNONYMS: schitkovi, zhitkovi (see Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951; and Pavlinov and Rossolimo, 1987).

COMMENTS: Subgenus Pygeretmus . Corbet (1978c) regarded the emendation of shitkovi to zhitkovi invalid, but other workers disagree; there has been no ruling by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Reviewed by Ognev (1963b).

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Mammalia
Order	Rodentia
Family	Dipodidae
Genus	Pygeretmus