Scarturus heptneri
(Pavlenko & Denisenko, 1976)
Heptner's 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
Pavlenko, T.A. and Denisenko, N.I. 1976. Новый подвид малого тушканчика (_Allactaga elater heptneri_ Pavlenco et Denisenco, subsp. n.) из Ферганской Долины (Узбекистан). Зоологический Журнал 55(7):1073-1077.
Original name as described
Allactaga elater heptneri
Type material
ASRU 424
Type kind
holotype
Type locality
Fergana Valley, Namangan, Uzbekistan.
Biogeographic realm
Palearctic
Country distribution
Kazakhstan · Uzbekistan · Turkmenistan · Iran · Afghanistan · Tajikistan · Kyrgyzstan
Taxonomy notes
split from S. elater; the name turkmeni may apply to this species, although it is currently a synonym of S. elater
Taxonomy notes citation
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
Not Evaluated
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