Greater fat-tailed jerboa
| Greater fat-tailed jerboa | |
|---|---|
| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Dipodidae |
| Genus: | Pygeretmus |
| Species: | P. shitkovi |
| Binomial name | |
| Pygeretmus shitkovi (Kuznetsov, 1930) | |
The greater fat-tailed jerboa (Pygeretmus shitkovi) is a species of rodent in the Dipodidae family. It is endemic to Kazakhstan. Its natural habitat is temperate desert.
References
- ↑ Tsytsulina, K. (2008). Pygeretmus shitkovi. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 15 March 2009. Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is of near threatened
- 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.