Great Jerboa

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Great Jerboa
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Dipodidae
Genus: Allactaga
Subgenus: Allactaga
Species: A. major
Binomial name
Allactaga major
(Kerr, 1792)

The Great Jerboa (Allactaga major) is a species of rodent in the Dipodidae family. It is found in Kazakhstan, Russia, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.

[edit] References

  • Holden, M. E. and G. G. Musser. 2005. Family Dipodidae. Pp. 871-893 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
  • Tchabovsky, A. 1996. Allactaga major. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 29 July 2007.