Jaculus Erxleben, 1777 . Syst. Regni Anim., 1:404.

TYPE SPECIES: Mus jaculus Linnaeus, 1758, as fixed by Opinion 730 of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (1965); not Jaculus orientalis Erxleben, 1777 .

SYNONYMS: Scirtopoda (incl. Haltomys) (see Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951; and Corbet, 1978c).

COMMENTS: Myology, in context of adaptive and phylogenetic significance, studied by Klingener (1964).