Zarudny's jird

Zarudny's jird (Meriones zarudnyi) is a rodent in the family Muridae, in the genus Meriones, whose members are known as jirds. It was described by Heptner in 1937 and is found in Afghanistan, Iran and Turkmenistan. The International Union for Conservation of Nature lists the species as Data Deficient, meaning the available evidence is too thin to judge its population size or how threatened it is. The source article for this entry is a brief stub that gives only its identity, family and range, so its appearance, diet, burrowing habits and breeding are not described there and are left blank here rather than inferred from other jirds. Further natural history will be added from sources that state it for this species.