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) 487 499 book chapter 193480 10.5281/zenodo.7353072 464c8b9e-237c-4dd7-9c94-7033f742d015 1-56098-217-9 7353072 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.