Allactaga F. Cuvier 1836

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 : 874

Allactaga F. Cuvier 1836

Allactaga F. Cuvier 1836 , Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1836: 141.

Type Species: Mus jaculus Pallas 1778

Synonyms: Alactaga F. Cuvier 1838 ; Beloprymnus Gloger 1841 ; Mesoallactaga Shenbrot 1974 ; Microallactaga Shenbrot 1974 ; Proalactaga Savinov 1970 ; Scirteta Brandt 1844 ; Scirtetes Wagner 1841 ; Scirtomys Brandt 1844 .

Species and subspecies: 12 species in 4 subgenera:

Subgenus Allactaga (Allactaga) F. Cuvier 1836

Subgenus Allactaga (Orientallactaga) Shenbrot 1984

Subgenus Allactaga (Paralactaga) Young 1927

Subgenus Allactaga (Scarturus) Gloger 1841

Species Allactaga (Orientallactaga) balikunica Hsia and Fang 1964

Species Allactaga (Orientallactaga) bullata Allen 1925

Species Allactaga (Allactaga) elater (Lichtenstein 1825)

Species Allactaga (Paralactaga) euphratica Thomas 1881

Species Allactaga (Allactaga) firouzi Womochel 1978

Species Allactaga (Allactaga) hotsoni Thomas 1920

Species Allactaga (Allactaga) major ( Kerr 1792)

Species Allactaga (Allactaga) severtzovi Vinogradov 1925

Species Allactaga (Orientallactaga) sibirica (Forster 1778)

Species Allactaga (Scarturus) tetradactyla (Lichtenstein 1823)

Species Allactaga (Allactaga) vinogradovi Argyropulo 1941

Species Allactaga (Paralactaga) williamsi Thomas 1897

Discussion: 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 Belorussia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, W Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, S Russia, and NW Mongolia provided by Shenbrot (1993). Generic review and composite range map of species presented by Shenbrot et al. (1995). Mus jaculus Linnaeus, 1758 is the type species of Jaculus (see comments therein). Shenbrot (1984) described several subgenera, which we use here, but Zazhigin and Lopatin (2000 c) claimed their distinctness is doubtful. Shenbrot et al. (1995) included the extinct Protalactaga (Miocene of North Africa and Asia) as a synonym, but Zazhigin and Lopatin (2000 c) and McKenna and Bell (1997) retained it as a separate genus. McKenna and Bell (1997) recognized Proalactaga (Asian late Miocene), and Kowalski (2001) used Paralactaga (Pliocene-Pleistocene), but Shenbrot (1984) and Zahigin and Lopatin (2000 b) explained why the two genera should be synonymized with Allactaga . For synonyms see Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951) and Pavlinov and Rossolimo (1987, 1998).