Cheng's Jird

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Cheng's Jird
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Muridae
Genus: Meriones
Subgenus: Pallasiomys
Species: M. chengi
Binomial name
Meriones chengi
Wang, 1964

The Cheng's Jird (Meriones chengi) is a species of rodent in the Muridae family. It is found only in China.

[edit] References

  • Baillie, J. 1996. Meriones chengi. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 19 July 2007.
  • Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. Pp. 894-1531 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
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