Dipus deasyi

Barrett-Hamilton, 1900

Qaidam Three-toed Jerboa

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Euarchontoglires
Order : Rodentia
Suborder : Supramyomorpha
Infraorder : Myomorphi
Superfamily : Dipodoidea
Family : Dipodidae
Subfamily : Dipodinae
Genus : Dipus

Species status

Living
Found in the wild

Authority citation

Barrett-Hamilton, G.E.H. 1900-08. On a small collection of mammals obtained by Captain Deasy in South Chinese Turkestan and western Tibet. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1900(2):196-197.

Original name as described

Dipus deasyi

Type material

BMNH:Mamm:1899.11.5.3

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

Nura, S Tarim Basin, Xinjiang, China.

Biogeographic realm

Palearctic

Country distribution

China

Taxonomy notes

split from D. sagitta

Taxonomy notes citation

Lebedev, V. S., Bannikova, A. A., Lu, L., Snytnikov, E. A., Adiya, Y., Solovyeva, E. N., ... & Shenbrot, G. I. (2018). Phylogeographical study reveals high genetic diversity in a widespread desert rodent, Dipus sagitta (Dipodidae: Rodentia). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 123(2), 445-462. · Cheng, J., Ge, D., Xia, L., Wen, Z., Zhang, Q., Lu, L., & Yang, Q. (2018). Phylogeny and taxonomic reassessment of jerboa, Dipus (Rodentia, Dipodinae), in inland Asia. Zoologica Scripta, 47(6), 630-644.

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

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