Allactaga (F. Cuvier, 1837)

Mary Ellen Holden, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Dipodidae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 487-499 : 488

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scientific name	Allactaga (F. Cuvier, 1837)
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Allactaga (F. Cuvier, 1837) View in CoL . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1836:141 [1837].

TYPE SPECIES: Mus jaculus Pallas, 1778 View in CoL (= Dipus sibericus major Kerr, 1792 ); see comments below.

SYNONYMS: Mesoallactaga, Microallactaga, Orientallactaga, Paralactaga, Scarturus, Scirteta, Scirtetes, Scirtomys (see Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951; and Pavlinov and Rossolimo, 1987).

COMMENTS: Does not include Allactodipus (see comment under Allactodipus bobrinskii ). Shenbrot's (1984) subgeneric classification is followed below except where noted. Subspecific revision of species occuring in the independant countries of the former USSR provided by Shenbrot (1991d). Mus jaculus Linnaeus, 1758 is the type species of Jaculus (see comments therein).

References

Ellerman, J. R., and T. C. S. Morrison-Scott. 1951. Checklist of Palaearctic and Indian mammals 1758 to 1946. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 810 pp.

Kerr, R. 1792. The animal kingdom, or zoological system, of the celebrated Sir Charles Linnaeus; class I: Mammalia. London, J. Murray & R. Faulder, 664 pp.

Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classis, ordines, genera, species cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tenth ed. Vol. 1. Laurentii Salvii, Stockholm, 824 pp.

Pavlinov, I. Ya., and O. L. Rossolimo. 1987. Sistematika mlekopitayushchikh SSSR [Systematics of the mammals of the USSR.]. Moscow University Press, Moscow, 282 pp. (in Russian).

Shenbrot, G. I. 1991 d [1992]. [Subspecific systematic revision of the five-toed jerboa genus Allactaga in the USSR.] Trudy Zoologicheskovo Instituta, Akademiya Nauk SSSR, 243: 1 - 16 (in Russian).