Lesser Fat-tailed Jerboa

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Lesser Fat-tailed Jerboa
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Dipodidae
Genus: Pygeretmus
Species: P. platyurus
Binomial name
Pygeretmus platyurus
(Lichtenstein, 1823)

The Lesser Fat-tailed Jerboa (Pygeretmus platyurus) is a species of rodent in the Dipodidae family. It is endemic to West, Central, and Eastern Kazakhstan, as well as Northwestern Turkmenistan.

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