Order Rodentia - Family Muridae 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 1189 1531 book chapter 0-8018-8221-4 10.5281/zenodo.7316535 Meriones (Pallasiomys) tristrami Thomas 1892 Meriones (Pallasiomys) tristrami Thomas 1892 , Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 6, 9: 148 . Type Locality: Israel , Dead Sea region. Vernacular Names: Tristram's Jird . Synonyms: Meriones (Pallasiomys) blackleri Thomas 1903 ; Meriones (Pallasiomys) bodenheimeri Aharoni 1932 ; Meriones (Pallasiomys) bogdanovi Heptner 1931 ; Meriones (Pallasiomys) intraponticus Neuhäuser 1936 ; Meriones (Pallasiomys) kariateni Aharoni 1932 ; Meriones (Pallasiomys) kilisensis Yi?it and Çolak 1998 ; Meriones (Pallasiomys) qatafensis Haas 1951 . Distribution: From Israel , Lebanon , and W Jordan to Turkey (Kryštufek and Vohralík, 2001; Yi it et al., 1998 a ), Syria , N Iraq , NW Iran , and Transcaucasia (see Harrison and Bates, 1991:294 ). Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). Discussion: Subgenus Pallasiomys . Treated as a subspecies of M. shawi by Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951) . The species was generally reviewed by Corbet (1978 c ) and Pavlinov et al. (1990) and regionally reviewed by Harrison and Bates (1991 , Arabia), Qumsiyeh (1996) and Mendelssohn and Yom-Tov (1999 , Israel and Jordan ), Misonne (1957 , Syria ), Lay (1967 , C Asia), Yi it et al. (1998 a , Turkey ), and Gromov and Erbajeva (1995 , Russia ). Chromosomal polymorphism and its significance among Transcaucasian samples were reported by Korobitsyna and Korablev (1980) . Populations in Turkey have a stable diploid number (72) but the fundamental number varies between 76 in W Turkey and 82 in samples from the rest of Turkey (a diagnostic traits of M. t. kilisensis is its FN of 78; Yi it and Çolak, 1998). Meriones tristrami has resided in the S Levant, as documented by fossils, since at least 160,000 years before present (see reviews and references cited by Tchernov, 1992 , 1994 ). Saleh and Basuony (1998) claimed the Sinai Peninsula was the westernmost part of M. tristrami ’s range but provided no documentation; we cannot locate records west of Israel .