NATURAL HISTORY · CATALOGUE RECORD
Small Five-toed Jerboa
Allactaga (Allactaga) elater (Lichtenstein, 1828)
Source-backed taxonomic record
Accepted species in Catalogue of Life’s 11 September 2026 base release. This preserves the source classification and available supporting data; it is not a completed species monograph.
Identity & source status
- Scientific name
- Allactaga (Allactaga) elater (Lichtenstein, 1828)
- Name authority
- (Lichtenstein, 1828)
- Common name
- Small Five-toed Jerboa
- Rank
- species
- Accepted status
- accepted
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Mammalia
- Order
- Rodentia
- Family
- Dipodidae
- Genus
- Allactaga
- Extinction status
- Recorded extant
Classification family tree
Nested taxonomic groups from the source. This is not a direct-ancestor chain, a dated evolutionary tree or a phylogenetic reconstruction.
- domainEukaryota (Chatton, 1925) Whittaker & Margulis, 1978
- kingdomAnimalia
- phylumChordata
- subphylumVertebrata
- infraphylumGnathostomata
- parvphylumOsteichthyes
- megaclassTetrapoda
- classMammalia Linnaeus, 1758
- subclassTheria Parker & Haswell, 1897
- infraclassEutheria Gill, 1872
- orderRodentia Bowdich, 1821
- suborderMyomorpha Brandt, 1855
- superfamilyDipodoidea Fischer de Waldheim, 1817
- familyDipodidae Fischer de Waldheim, 1817
- subfamilyAllactaginae Vinogradov, 1925
- genusAllactaga F. Cuvier, 1837
- subgenusAllactaga F. Cuvier, 1837
- speciesAllactaga (Allactaga) elater (Lichtenstein, 1828)
Close classified relatives
These entries share the source’s genus, Allactaga. They are not necessarily the closest relatives established by molecular evidence.
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| Balikun JerboaAllactaga (Orientallactaga) balikunica Hsia & Fang, 1964 | DipodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Gobi JerboaAllactaga (Orientallactaga) bullata G. M. Allen, 1925 | DipodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Euphrates JerboaAllactaga (Paralactaga) euphratica Thomas, 1881 | DipodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Hotson's Five-toed JerboaAllactaga (Allactaga) hotsoni Thomas, 1920 | DipodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Severtzov's JerboaAllactaga (Allactaga) severtzovi Vinogradov, 1925 | DipodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Mongolian Five-toed JerboaAllactaga (Orientallactaga) sibirica (Forster, 1778) | DipodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Allactaga toussi Darvish, Hajjar, Matin, Haddad & Akbary rad, 2008 | DipodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Vinogradov's JerboaAllactaga (Allactaga) vinogradovi Argyropulo, 1941 | DipodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
Names & synonyms
Names explicitly linked to this accepted taxon in the source. Synonymy can change with revision.
| Recorded name | Source status |
|---|---|
| Allactaga bactriana Blyth, 1863 Blyth, 1863 | synonym |
| Allactaga elater strandi Hepner, 1934 Hepner, 1934 | synonym |
| Allactaga elater zaisanicus Shenbrot, 1991 Shenbrot, 1991 | synonym |
| Allactaga aralychensis Satunin, 1901 Satunin, 1901 | synonym |
| Allactaga indica Gray, 1842 Gray, 1842 | synonym |
| Allactaga elater caucasicus Nehring, 1900 Nehring, 1900 | synonym |
| Allactaga elater dzungariae Thomas, 1912 Thomas, 1912 | synonym |
| Allactaga elater heptneri Pavlenko & Denisenko, 1976 Pavlenko & Denisenko, 1976 | synonym |
| Allactaga elater kizljaricus Satunin, 1907 Satunin, 1907 | synonym |
| Allactaga elater turkmeni Goodwin, 1940 Goodwin, 1940 | synonym |
Documented distribution
Source distribution statements, not a complete range map. A listed locality is not necessarily a place of origin.
Southern Asia
Source literature & publication evidence
References attached to this source record, including nomenclatural citations where supplied. This is a selected bibliography; abbreviated citations remain in the source’s form.
- https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=609735 Source fields: Taxon.tsv dwc:namePublishedIn, Taxon.tsv dcterms:references
Origins, evidence & remaining research
Name authority and publication references document nomenclature where the source supplies it. They do not establish evolutionary origins or the earliest fossil occurrence.
Specimen-level evidence, morphology, ecological research, phylogenetic studies, a comprehensive bibliography and a located literary passage have not yet been compiled for this record. A suitable sourced image remains to be added.
Dataset citation & attribution
This exact taxon in ChecklistBank · Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11
Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11; dataset 316321; doi:10.48580/dgz5n. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . Retrieved 5 October 2026.
Stable key: col:7QJ7K. Classification follows source parent identifiers. English common names may vary by region.