Scarturus indicus
(J. E. Gray, 1842)
Southern 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
Gray, J.E. 1842-12-01. Descriptions of some new genera and fifty unrecorded species of Mammalia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (1)10(65):255-267.
Authority publication link
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2324286Original name as described
Alactaga indica
Type material
BMNH:Mamm:1844.9.15.4
Type kind
lectotype
Type specimen URI
https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/d904cff7-6dd5-4521-acfc-7cfc9c5f3f34Type locality
Simkoh Hills, Afghanistan.
Biogeographic realm
Palearctic
Country distribution
Turkey · Armenia · Azerbaijan · Iran · Turkmenistan · Afghanistan · Pakistan
Taxonomy notes
split from S. elater and includes the recently described toussi
Taxonomy notes citation
Darvish, J., Hajjar, T., Moghadam, M. M., Hadad, F., & Akbari, R. S. (2008). New species of five-toed jerboa (Rodentia: Dipodidae, Allactaginae) from north-east Iran. · 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
Not Evaluated
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