Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Zoology in the Middle East, cilt.16, sa.1, ss.19-30, 1998 (SCI-Expanded)
The taxonomic status and diagnostic characteristics of Meriones tristrami blackleri, M. t. lycaon, M. t. intraponticus, M. t. bodenheimeri and M. t. bogdanovi are discussed, based on material collected in Turkey. According to biomeţric and morphological comparisons, the specimens from southeastern and eastern Anatolia were found to be closer to bodenheimeri and bogdanovi than to lycaon. The white tail tip of blackleri, the dorsal colour and baculum shape of lycaon, the white incisors of intraponticus, and the short hind foot and the ear length of bodenheimeri are characteristics that distinguish these taxa from one other. The diploid number of chromosomes is 72 in M. tristrami. However, the fundamental number is 76 in blackleri and 82 in lycaon, intraponticus and bodenheimeri. © 1998 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.