Hotson's jerboa
| Hotson's Jerboa | |
|---|---|
| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Dipodidae |
| Genus: | Allactaga |
| Subgenus: | Allactaga |
| Species: | A. hotsoni |
| Binomial name | |
| Allactaga hotsoni Thomas, 1920 | |
Hotson's Jerboa (Allactaga hotsoni) is a species of rodent in the Dipodidae family. It is found in Afghanistan, Iran, and Pakistan. Named by Oldfield Thomas after John Ernest Buttery Hotson who collected specimens in Baluchistan during 1918-1920.
References
- ↑ Shenbrot, G. & Molur, S. (2008). Allactaga hotsoni. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 11 February 2009.
- Holden, M. E. and G. G. Musser. 2005. 'Family Dipodidae', Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, pp. 871-893.
- Thomas, Oldfield. 1920. 'Some new Mammals from Baluchistan and North-West India', Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, vol. 26, no. 4, pp. 936-937.