Check List 12(2): e19457, doi: 10.15560/12.2.1855
New records of the William’s Jerboa, Paralactaga cf. williamsi (Thomas, 1897) (Rodentia: Dipodidae) from northeastern Iran with notes on its ecology
Kordiyeh Hamidi‡, Jamshid Darvish‡, Maryam M. Matin‡‡ Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran
Corresponding author: Kordiyeh Hamidi ( anahita.hamidi82@yahoo.com ) © 2017 Kordiyeh Hamidi, Jamshid Darvish, Maryam Matin. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Citation:
Darvish J, Hamidi K, Matin M (2016) New records of the William’s Jerboa, Paralactaga cf. williamsi (Thomas, 1897) (Rodentia: Dipodidae) from northeastern Iran with notes on its ecology. Check List 12(2): 1855. https://doi.org/10.15560/12.2.1855 |  |
Abstract
Paralactaga williamsi, a five-toed jerboa, is known to occur in Anatolian Turkey, northern Lebanon, Armenia, Azerbaijan and western Iran. Here, we report the first record of this species in Kopet-Dag Mountains, northeastern Iran. Species identification was based on external morphology, skull and molar teeth morphology and morphometrics studies, as well as molecular analyses. Brief notes on the ecology of the species are also provided. This new record expands the distribution of P. williamsi in Iran about 850 km eastward, however further sampling will be needed for a better judgment on the taxonomic status of this species in eastern Iran and to determine the patterns of its distribution. Since the specimen did not group with other P. williamsi in the cytochrome b analysis, we provisionally classify the specimens as P. cf. williamsi.
Keywords
five-toed jerboa; eastern Iran; range extension; new record; habitat