Taxonomy Profile: Jaculus (Erxleben 1777)

Jaculus: Taxonomy and Nomenclature
Kingdom:
Animalia
Taxonomic Rank:
Genus
Synonym(s):
Haltomys
Brandt 1844
Scirtopoda
Brandt 1844
Common Name(s):
African Desert Jerboas []
Desert Jerboas []
Taxonomic Status:
Current Standing:
valid
Data Quality Indicators:
Record Credibility Rating:
TWG standards met
Jaculus: Taxonomic Hierarchy
Kingdom : Animalia
animals |
Animal |
animaux |
Subkingdom : Bilateria
Infrakingdom : Deuterostomia
Phylum : Chordata
chordates |
cordado |
cordés |
Subphylum : Vertebrata
vertebrates |
vertebrado |
vertébrés |
Infradivision : Gnathostomata
Superclass : Tetrapoda
Class : Mammalia
mammals |
mamífero |
mammifères |
Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Eutheria
Order : Rodentia
rodents |
esquilo |
preá |
rato |
roedor |
rongeurs |
Suborder : Myomorpha
Mice |
Rats |
Rats |
souris |
Voles |
Gerbils |
Hamsters |
Lemmings |
Superfamily : Dipodoidea
Family : Dipodidae
jumping mice |
birch mice |
Jerboas |
Subfamily : Dipodinae
Genus : Jaculus
African Desert Jerboas |
Desert Jerboas |
Jaculus Direct Children(s):
Jaculus blanfordi
(Murray 1884)
Jaculus jaculus
(Linnaeus 1758)
Jaculus orientalis
(Erxleben 1777)
Jaculus thaleri
(Darvish and Hosseinie 2005)
Jaculus: References
Expert(s):
Expert:
Mary Ellen Holden
Notes:
Department of Mammology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY 10023
Reference for:
Jaculus
Source(s):
Publication(s):
Author(s)/Editor(s):
Wilson, Don E., and F. Russell Cole
Publication Date (Listed/Actual):
2000-01-01 / 2000-01-01
Article/Chapter Title:
Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:
Common Names of Mammals of the World
Page(s):
xiv + 204
Publisher:
Smithsonian Institution Press
Publication Place:
Washington, DC, USA
ISBN/ISSN:
1-56098-383-3/
Notes:
With contributions by Bernadette N. Graham, Adam P. Potter, and Mariana M. Upmeyer
Reference for:
Jaculus
Author(s)/Editor(s):
Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds.
Publication Date (Listed/Actual):
1992-01-01 / 1993-01-01
Article/Chapter Title:
Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:
Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing
Page(s):
xviii + 1207
Publisher:
Smithsonian Institution Press
Publication Place:
Washington, DC, USA
ISBN/ISSN:
1-56098-217-9/
Notes:
Corrections were made to text at 3rd printing
Reference for:
Jaculus
Author(s)/Editor(s):
Holden, Mary Ellen, and Guy G. Musser / Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds.
Publication Date (Listed/Actual):
2005-10-01 / 2005-10-01
Article/Chapter Title:
Family Dipodidae
Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:
Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., vol. 2
Page(s):
871-893
Publisher:
Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication Place:
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
ISBN/ISSN:
0-8018-8221-4/
Notes:
Reference for:
Jaculus
Author(s)/Editor(s):
Shenbrot, G. I., V. E. Sokolov, V. G. Heptner, and Yu. M. Koval'skaya
Publication Date (Listed/Actual):
2008-01-01 / 2008-01-01
Article/Chapter Title:
Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:
Jerboas
Page(s):
xviii + 768
Publisher:
Amerind Publishing Co.
Publication Place:
New Delhi, India
ISBN/ISSN:
5-02-004764-3/
Notes:
Translated from Russian. Robert S. Hoffmann and Don E. Wilson, eds.
Reference for:
Jaculus
Jaculus: Geographic Information
Geographic Division:
Jurisdiction/Origin:
Jaculus: Comments
Comment:
Comments: Dipodini. Myology, in context of adaptive and phylogenetic significance, studied by Klingener (1964). Generic review and composite distribution map of all species provided by Shenbrot et al. (1995). Evolutionary history extends back to late Miocene of Kazakhstan (Zazhigin and Lopatin, 2001), late Pliocene of Morocco (Jaeger, 1970) and Ethiopia (Wesselman, 1984), and Plio-Pleistocene in Kenya (Black and Krishtalka, 1986); see review by Denys (1999). For synonyms see Ellerman and Morrison-Sco...