Dahl's Jird
Meriones dahli Shidlovsky, 1962
Also calledDahl-Rennratte (deu) · Mérione de Dahl (fra) · Peschanka Dalya (rus)
First described in: Definition Rodents Zakabkaziya p.115
Dahl's jird (Meriones dahli) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found only in Armenia and the neighboring Agri province of Turkey.
Physically, the Dahl's jird most often has dark and brightly colored fur on its back with a lighter abdomen and black tail. Its external appearance led many to presume that the Dahl's jird was a subspecies of the midday jird (M. meridianus), but it has been ranked up to a full species.
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
discussion
Discussion: Subgenus Pallasiomys. Included in M. meridianus by Corbet (1978 c) but shown to be a separate species by Dyatlov and Avanyan (1987), whose results were based on morphological, biochemical, and chromosomal traits, as well as interbreeding experiments. Reviewed by Pavlinov et al. (1990).
Order Rodentia - Family Muridae
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Type Locality: Armenia, Sadarak steppe, foothills of Vardanis (Saraibulak) Ridge.
Order Rodentia - Family Muridae
discussion
COMMENTS: Subgenus Pallasiomys. Included in M. meridianus by Corbet (1978 c) but shown to be a separate species by Dyatlov and Avanyan (1987), whose results were based on morphological, biochemical, and chromosomal traits, as well as interbreeding experiments. Reviewed by Pavlinov et al. (1990).
Order Rodentia - Family Muridae
materials_examined
TYPE LOCALITY: Armenia, Sadarak steppe, foothills of Vardanis (Saraibulak) Ridge.
Order Rodentia - Family Muridae
Where it has been recorded
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
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Every page naming Meriones dahli in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 5219717.