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).