Study on rodent fauna of ferdows conuty

Rodent have global spread and include the largest order of mammals that their broad range of adaptation is extensive. So far don’t perform a study on rodent fauna of Ferdows County. Therefore, the aim of this study is to identify this part of the vertebrates in this area. In this regard in order to identification and biosystematics survey of rodent fauna from winter 2014 to June 2014 in different parts of the area sampling was done by using different traps. Cached samples were identified by cranial, dental and morphometric characteristics. Based on results five species recognized in Ferdows which including Mus musculus, Tatera indica, Meriones persicus, Nesokia indica and Cricetulus migratorius.