Mongolian Five-toed Jerboa

Mongolian Five-toed Jerboa
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Dipodidae
Genus:	Allactaga
Subgenus:	Orientallactaga
Species:	A. sibirica
Binomial name
Allactaga sibirica (Forster, 1778)
Synonyms
Allactaga alactaga Allactaga grisescens Allactaga mongolica Allactaga salicus Allactaga semideserta Allactaga suschkini Dipus brachyurus Dipus halticus Dipus saltator

The Mongolian Five-toed Jerboa or Siberian Jerboa (Allactaga sibirica) is a species of rodent in the Dipodidae family. It is found in China, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, and Turkmenistan.

References

1. ^ Batsaikhan, N., Avirmed, D., Tinnin, D., Sukhchuluun, G. & Lkhagvasuren, D. (2008). Allactaga sibirica. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 11 February 2009.

• 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.