Allactaga sibirica (Forster, 1778)

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 : 489

Allactaga sibirica (Forster, 1778) . K. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Handl. Stockholm, 39:112.

TYPE LOCALITY: SE Transbaikalia, Chitinskaya Oblast, near Lake Tarei-Nur .

DISTRIBUTION: From lower Ural River ( Kazakhstan) and Caspian Sea east to Chitinskaya Oblast south to N Turkmenistan ( Kuznetsov, 1965; Shenbrot, 19914; Sludskii, 1977); Mongolia ( Bannikov, 1954); China: Nei Mongol, Xinjiang, Qinghai, Gansu, Ningxia, Shaanxi, Shanxi, N Hebei, W Liaoning, W Jilin, and W Heilongjiang (in China see Ho et al., 1986; Laing and Zhang, 1985; Liu et al., 1990; Ma et al., 1987; Mi et al., 1990; Qin, 1991; Shou, 1962; Zhang and Wang, 1963; and Zheng and Zhang, 1990); no valid record from Korea (see Corbet, 1978c:154).

SYNONYMS: alactaga , altorum, annulata, brachyurus , bulganensis, dementiewi, grisescens , halticus , longior, media, mongolica, ognevi, ruckbeili , salicus, saliens , saltator , semideserto, suschkini (see Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951; Corbet, 1978c, 1984; Pavlinov and Rossolimo, 1987; and Shenbrot, 19914).

COMMENTS: Subgenus Orientallactaga . Reviewed by Ognev (1963b). Subspecific revision and additional distributional data provided by Shenbrot (19914). Geographic variation studied by Varshavsky (1991). Karyotype provided by Vorontsov et al. (1969c). Detailed habitat data provided by Naumov and Lobachev (1975).