Dahl's jird
Conservation status
Critically Endangered  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Muridae
Genus:	Meriones
Species:	M. dahli
Binomial name
Meriones dahli Shidlovsky, 1962

Dahl's jird (Meriones dahli) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found only in Armenia and the neighboring Agri province of Turkey. Physically the Dahl's jird most often has dark and brightly colored fur on its back with a lighter abdomen and black tail. Its external appearance led many to presume that the Dahl's jird was a member of the subspecies family M. meridianus dahli but it has been ranked up to a full species

References

• Musser, G. G.; Carleton, M. D. (2005). "Superfamily Muroidea". In Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 1235. ISBN   978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC   62265494.
• Bulut, S. 2009. Dahl's Jird/Meriones dahli. Turkey's Mammals. Downloaded on 3 October 2010.

Bulut, Ş.. (2022). The present status, distribution, demographics, and diet of the Dahl's Jird. Brazilian Journal of Biology , 82 , e237849. https://doi.org/10.1590/1519-6984.237849

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