Jaculus Erxleben 1777

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Dipodidae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 871-893 : 883

Jaculus Erxleben 1777

Jaculus Erxleben 1777 , Systema Regni Animalis, Vol. 1: 404.

Type Species: Mus jaculus Linnaeus 1758

Synonyms: Haltomys Brandt 1844 ; Scirtopoda Brandt 1844 .

Species and subspecies: 3 species:

Species Jaculus blanfordi Murray 1884

Species Jaculus jaculus ( Linnaeus 1758)

Species Jaculus orientalis Erxleben 1777

Discussion: Dipodini. Myology, in context of adaptive and phylogenetic significance, studied by Klingener (1964). Generic review and composite distribution map of all species provided by Shenbrot et al. (1995). Evolutionary history extends back to late Miocene of Kazakhstan ( Zazhigin and Lopatin, 2001), late Pliocene of Morocco ( Jaeger, 1970) and Ethiopia ( Wesselman, 1984), and Plio-Pleistocene in Kenya ( Black and Krishtalka, 1986); see review by Denys (1999). For synonyms see Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951) and Corbet (1978c).