Greater fat-tailed jerboa

Greater fat-tailed jerboa
Conservation status
Near Threatened  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Dipodidae
Genus:	Pygeretmus
Species:	P. shitkovi
Binomial name
Pygeretmus shitkovi (Kuznetsov, 1930)
Synonyms
Pygeretmus zhitkovi

The greater fat-tailed jerboa (Pygeretmus shitkovi) is a species of rodent in the family Dipodidae. It is endemic to Kazakhstan. Its natural habitat is temperate desert.

References

1. Tsytsulina, K. (2008). Pygeretmus shitkovi. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 15 March 2009. Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is of near threatened

• Holden, M.E.; Musser, G.G. (2005). "Family Dipodidae". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 871–893. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.