Cream-colored fur above, a white underside and a black-and-white tail tuft distinguish this jerboa. It forages at night and excavates burrows in sandy ground across arid parts of Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
The coat is cream-colored above and white underneath. The tail tuft is black on its front half and white on the rear half.
It sleeps by day and forages at night, digging complex burrows by shaping and pushing sand with its blunt head and nose.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.