Order Rodentia - Family Muridae Author Guy G. Musser Author Michael D. Carleton text 1993 Smithsonian Institution Press Washington and London Editor Don E. Wilson Editor DeeAnn M. Reeder Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition) 501 755 book chapter http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7353098 1-56098-217-9 7353098 Meriones unguiculatus (Milne-Edwards, 1867) . Ann. Sci. Nat. Zool., Ser. 7, 5:377 . TYPE LOCALITY: China , N Shanxi , 10 mi NE of Tschang-Kur, Eul-che san hao (= Ershi san hao) . DISTRIBUTION: Mongolia , adjacent regions of Siberia (Transbaikalia), and of China from N Gansu through Nei Mongol to Heilongjiang . SYNONYMS: chihfengensis, koslovi , kurauchii , selenginus. COMMENTS: Subgenus Pallasiomys . Reviewed by Allen (1940) and Corbet (1978c) . Corbet also included Xinjiang in the distribution of the species, but Ma et al. (1987) did not record it there. See Gulotta, 1971 (Mammalian Species, 3).