Meriones meridianus

(Pallas, 1773)

Central Midday Jird

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Euarchontoglires
Order : Rodentia
Suborder : Supramyomorpha
Infraorder : Myomorphi
Superfamily : Muroidea
Family : Muridae
Subfamily : Gerbillinae
Tribe : Gerbillini
Genus : Meriones
Subgenus : Pallasiomys

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Pallas, P.S. 1773. Reise durch verschiedene Provinzen des Russischen Reichs. Volume 2. Kayserlichen Academie der Wissenschaften, Saint Petersburg, 504 pp.

Authority publication link

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k97334n/f707.item.r=Reise%20durch%20verschiedene%20Provinzen%20des%20Russischen%20Reichs

Original name as described

Mus meridianus

Other common names

Midday Gerbil

Type material

ZMMU S-5671

Type kind

neotype

Type specimen URI

https://zmmu.msu.ru/dbs/list_record.php?id=S-5671

Type locality

type locality unknown. Restricted by V. G. Heptner in 1936 to Dosang, Astrakhanskaya Oblast, south-eatern Russia.

Biogeographic realm

Palearctic

Country distribution

Russia · Turkey · Armenia · Azerbaijan? · Iran? · Kazakhstan · Uzbekistan · Turkmenistan · Kyrgyzstan · Tajikistan · Iran · Afghanistan · China

Taxonomy notes

previously included psammophilus and penicilliger; includes dahli

Taxonomy notes citation

Nanova, O. G., Lebedev, V. S., Matrosova, V. A., Adiya, Y., Undrakhbayar, E., Surov, A. V., & Shenbrot, G. I. (2020). Phylogeography, phylogeny, and taxonomical revision of the Midday jird (Meriones meridianus) species complex from Dzungaria. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research. · Bulut, Ş., & Karacan, G. O. (2021). Taxonomic status of Dahl’s Jird, Meriones dahli, as inferred from cytochrome b and IRBP gene sequences (Mammalia: Rodentia). Zoology in the Middle East, 1-7.

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

Species Permalink

https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1002960

Country distribution map

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Names and synonyms

Present and past (if available) associated names to the species. Click on a name to view its details. If the list is long, scroll down to see more.

Meriones büchneri

O. Thomas, 1909

Family

Muridae

Root name

buechneri

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

BMNH:Mamm:1892.1.1.11

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/6dfd7347-0d84-40b8-93b6-52aa87770a0c

Authority page

262

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/22071631

Authority publication

Annals and Magazine of Natural History

Name usages

Musser & Carleton (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8562)

Pallasiomys meridianus uschtaganicus

(Rall, 1940)

Family

Muridae

Root name

uschtaganicus

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

ZIN S. 23657

Type kind

holotype

Authority page

328

Authority publication

Vestn. mikrobiol., epidemiol. i parazitol.

Name usages

Musser & Carleton (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8562)

Meriones fulvus

Eversmann, 1848

Family

Muridae

Root name

fulvus

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

ZIN S. 4318

Type kind

holotype

Authority page

195

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34377751

Authority publication

Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou

Name usages

Musser & Carleton (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8562)

Gerbillus meridianus nogaiorum

(Heptner, 1927)

Family

Muridae

Root name

nogaiorum

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

ZMMU S-15933

Type kind

lectotype

Type specimen URI

https://zmmu.msu.ru/dbs/list_record.php?id=S-15933

Authority page

32

Authority publication

Материалы к познанию фауны Нижнего Поволжья

Name usages

Musser & Carleton (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8562)

Mus meridianus

(Pallas, 1773)

Family

Muridae

Root name

meridianus

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

ZMMU S-5671

Type kind

neotype

Type specimen URI

https://zmmu.msu.ru/dbs/list_record.php?id=S-5671

Authority page

702

Authority page URI

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k97334n/f707.item.r=Reise%20durch%20verschiedene%20Provinzen%20des%20Russischen%20Reichs

Authority publication

Saint Petersburg

Pallasiomys meridianus massagetes

(Heptner, 1933)

Family

Muridae

Root name

massagetes

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

ZMMU S-6307

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

https://zmmu.msu.ru/dbs/list_record.php?id=S-6307

Authority page

155

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45342894

Authority publication

Zeitschrift für Säugetierkunde

Name usages

Musser & Carleton (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8562)

Pallasiomys meridianus karelini

(Kolosov, 1935)

Family

Muridae

Root name

karelini

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

ZMMU S-9050

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

https://zmmu.msu.ru/dbs/list_record.php?id=S-9050

Authority page

381

Authority publication

Бюллетень Московского общества испытателей природы

Name usages

Musser & Carleton (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8562)

Yerbua Meridiana

(J. R. Forster, 1778)

Family

Muridae

Root name

meridiana

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

113

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46729113

Authority publication

Kunglika Svenska Vetenskapsakademiens Handlingar

Meriones meridianus

Illiger, 1815

Family

Muridae

Root name

meridianus

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

62

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11080918

Authority publication

Abhandlungen der physikalischen Klasse der Königlich-Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften

Name usages

  1. Illiger (1815:62, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11080918) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/38688)
  2. Lichtenstein (1823:122, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/60405159) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/65818)
  3. Corbet & Hill (1980:166) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63069)
  4. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl (1982:424) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63071)
  5. Musser & Carleton (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8562)
  6. Smith & Xie (2008:250) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/64149)
  7. Wilson, Mittermeier & Lacher (2017:647) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/57900)
  8. Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #13165) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
  9. Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #13165) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
  10. Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1002960) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)
  11. International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/13165/115110242) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

Gerbillus meridianus

(Lesson, 1827)

Family

Muridae

Root name

meridianus

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

256

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/54207724

Authority publication

Paris

Name usages

Lesson (1827:256, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/54207724) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/36839)

Gerbillus longipes

(Lesson, 1842)

Family

Muridae

Root name

longipes

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

131

Authority publication

Paris

Name usages

Lesson (1842:131) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/36812)

Meriones dahli

Musser & Carleton, 2005

Family

Muridae

Root name

dahli

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority publication

Baltimore

Name usages

  1. Musser & Carleton (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8562)
  2. Wilson, Mittermeier & Lacher (2017:644) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/57900)
  3. Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #13162) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
  4. Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #13162) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
  5. International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/13162/22433617) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

Meriones meridianus buechneri

A. T. Smith & Xie Yan, 2008

Family

Muridae

Root name

buechneri

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

250

Authority publication

Princeton

Name usages

Smith & Xie (2008:250) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/64149)

Mus (longipes)

(Pallas, 1779)

Family

Muridae

Root name

longipes

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

misidentification

Authority page

88

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15494916

Authority publication

Erlangen

Gerbillus meridianus nogaiorum natio littoralis

(Heptner, 1927)

Family

Muridae

Root name

littoralis

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

nomen_nudum · infrasubspecific

Authority page

34

Authority publication

Материалы к познанию фауны Нижнего Поволжья

Name usages

Musser & Carleton (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8562)

Pallasiomys meridianus heptneri

(Kuznetsov in Bobrinski, Kuznetsov, & Kuzyakin, 1944)

Family

Muridae

Root name

heptneri

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Authority page

331

Authority publication

Moscow

Name usages

Musser & Carleton (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8562)

Meriones meridianus dahli

Shidlovsky, 1962

Family

Muridae

Root name

dahli

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Authority page

115

Authority publication

book

Meriones meridianus tropini

Kartavtseva & Korobitsyna, 1986

Family

Muridae

Root name

tropini

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

nomen_nudum

Authority page

65

Authority publication

Moscow

Name usages

Musser & Carleton (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8562)

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