Scarturus elater
(H. Lichtenstein, 1828)
Northern Small Five-toed Jerboa
Taxonomy
| Subclass | : Theria |
| Infraclass | : Placentalia |
| Magnorder | : Boreoeutheria |
| Superorder | : Euarchontoglires |
| Order | : Rodentia |
| Suborder | : Supramyomorpha |
| Infraorder | : Myomorphi |
| Superfamily | : Dipodoidea |
| Family | : Dipodidae |
| Subfamily | : Allactaginae |
| Genus | : Scarturus |
| Subgenus | : Microallactaga |
Species status
Authority citation
Lichtenstein, H. 1828. Über die Springmäuse oder die Arten der Gattung Dipus. Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1825:132-161.
Authority publication link
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29666379Original name as described
Dipus elater
Other common names
Five-toed Jerboa
Type locality
"Von den Küsten des Aral-Sees [= north coast of Aral Sea]," Kyzylorda Region, Kazakhstan.
Biogeographic realm
Palearctic
Country distribution
Russia · Azerbaijan · Georgia · Iran · Kazakhstan · Kyrgyzstan · Uzbekistan · Turkmenistan · Tajikistan · Afghanistan · China · Mongolia
Taxonomy notes
moved from Allactaga to Scarturus; S. elator is certainly a species complex with at least three species (S. elator, S. turkmeni or S. heptneri, and S. indica or S. aralychensis, which would include S. toussi); this arrangement is tentatively not followed here, as the names that apply to each of these taxa are not certain as of now
Taxonomy notes citation
Lebedev, V.S., Bannikova, A.A., Pagès, M., Pisano, J., Michaux, J.R. & Shenbrot, G.I. (2012). Molecular phylogeny and systematics of Dipodoidea: a test of morphology‐based hypotheses. —Zoologica Scripta, 42, 231–249. · Wilson, D. E., Mittermeier, R. A. and Lacher, T. E. (2017) Handbook of the Mammals of the World. Volume 7: Rodents II. Lynx Edicions · Bannikova, A., Lebedev, V., Dubrovskaya, A., Solovyeva, E., Moskalenko, V., Kryštufek, B., ... & Shenbrot, G. (2019). Genetic evidence for several cryptic species within the Scarturus elater species complex (Rodentia: Dipodoidea): when cryptic species are really cryptic. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 126(1), 16-39. · Lebedev, V. S., Shenbrot, G. I., Krystufek, B., Mahmoudi, A., Melnikova, M. N., Solovyeva, E. N., ... & Bannikova, A. A. (2022). Phylogenetic relations and range history of jerboas of the Allactaginae subfamily (Dipodidae, Rodentia). Scientific reports, 12(1), 1-15.
IUCN Red List status
Least Concern
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