Class [Mammalia] Linnaeus, 1758 - mammals
Order Rodentia Bowdich, 1821 - rodents
Family Muridae Batsch, 1788 - rats, mice, hamsters, voles, lemmings, and gerbils
Subfamily Gerbillinae Gray, 1825 - gerbils
Genus Meriones Illiger, 1811 - jirds
Meriones shawii (Duvernoy, 1842) - Shaw's jird
see Meriones shawi (Duvernoy, 1842)