Jaculus thaleri Darvish & Hosseinie, 2005

Eskandarzadeh, Naeimeh, Rastegar-Pouyani, Nasrullah, Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar, Fathinia, Behzad, Bahmani, Zahed, Hamidi, Kordiyeh & Gholamifard, Ali, 2018, Annotated checklist of the endemic Tetrapoda species of Iran, Zoosystema 40 (24), pp. 507-537 : 530

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5252/zoosystema2018v40a24
publication LSID	urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:D7AD1558-5D6E-4C68-9F25-F7C1B5DB9C54
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4331108
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scientific name	Jaculus thaleri Darvish & Hosseinie, 2005
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Jaculus thaleri Darvish & Hosseinie, 2005 View in CoL

Jaculus thaleri Darvish & Hosseinie, 2005: 23 View in CoL .

COMMON NAME. — Thaler’s Jerboa.

HOLOTYPE. — ZMFUM-992 .

TYPE LOCALITY. — Jafarabad, 35°00’N and 58°05’E, Kavir-e-Namak, Kashmar, Khorasan Razavi Province GoogleMaps .

DISTRIBUTION. — Known from the type locality and Bandan in the South Khorasan Province ( Darvish & Hosseinie 2005) .

HABITAT. — Poorly known. Semi-desert of the northeast of Iran ( Darvish & Hosseinie 2005).

IUCN. — Not evaluated.

REFERENCE. — Darvish & Hosseinie (2005).

REMARK

This species is closely related to J. blanfordi (Murray, 1884) by skull characteristics and the very complex structure of penis. However, the white flag is absent in the tail of J. thaleri , and karyotype is different from J. blanfordi ( Darvish & Hosseinie 2005) . Michaux & Shenbrot (2017) concluded that the Thaler’s Jerboa was an aberrant phenotype of J. blanfordi rather than an independent species. Hence, further sampling around the type locality (Kavir-e-Namak) and more integrated taxonomic studies are needed for precise inferences on this issue.

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