Order Rodentia - Family Dipodidae Author Wilson, Don E. Author Reeder, DeeAnn text 2005 The Johns Hopkins University Press Baltimore Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2 871 893 book chapter 0-8018-8221-4 10.5281/zenodo.7316535 Salpingotus (Prosalpingotus) pallidus Vorontsov and Shenbrot 1984 Salpingotus (Prosalpingotus) pallidus Vorontsov and Shenbrot 1984 , Zool. Zh., 63 (5): 740 . Type Locality: Kazakhstan , Aktyubinskaya, Chelkarskii, Peski Bol'shiye Barsuki. Vernacular Names: Pallid Pygmy Jerboa . Synonyms: Salpingotus (Prosalpingotus) sludskii Shenbrot and Mazin 1989 . Distribution: Deserts of N Aral and S Balkhash regions (see Shenbrot et al., 1995 ). Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). Discussion: Subgenus Prosalpingotus . Shenbrot and Mazin (1989) named sludskii as a subspecies of S. pallidus , but we are not recognizing subspecies. Reviewed by Shenbrot et al. (1995) .