Order Rodentia - Family Dipodidae
Author
Mary Ellen Holden
text
1993
Smithsonian Institution Press
Washington and London
Editor
Don E. Wilson
Editor
DeeAnn M. Reeder
Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition)
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499
book chapter
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Pygeretmus
Gloger, 1841
.
Gemeinn. Hand. Hilfsbuch. Nat., 1:106
.
TYPE SPECIES:
Dipus platurus
Lichtenstein, 1823
(emended to
D. platyurus
by
Lichtenstein, 1828
).
SYNONYMS:
Alactagulus, Platycercomys, Pygerethmus
(see
Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951
).
COMMENTS: Includes
Alactagulus
(see
Heptner, 1984
;
Pavlinov and Rossolimo, 1987
;
Shenbrot, 1984
).
Vorontsov et al. (1969b)
found no distinguishing karyological characters between subgenera
Alactagulus
and
Pygeretmus
;
in the same study karyotypes and morphometric comparisons of subgenus
Pygeretmus
were provided. Shenbrot's (1984) subgeneric classification is followed below.