Dipus sagitta

(Pallas, 1773)

Northern 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
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Pallas, P.S. 1773. Reise durch verschiedene Provinzen des Russischen Reichs. Volume 2. Kayserlichen Academie der Wissenschaften, Saint Petersburg, 504 pp.

Original name as described

Mus sagitta

Other common names

Hairy-footed Jerboa · Rough-legged Jerboa

Type locality

Yamyshevskaya, Pavlodar Region, N Kazakhstan.

Biogeographic realm

Palearctic

Country distribution

Kazakhstan · Uzbekistan · Turkmenistan · Afghanistan? · China · Mongolia · Russia

Taxonomy notes

previously included D. deasyi

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

Least Concern

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