Department of Mammology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY 10023
Reference for:
Allactaginae
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Publication(s):
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:
Allactaginae
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/
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Reference for:
Allactaginae
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:
Allactaginae
Allactaginae: Geographic Information
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Allactaginae: Comments
Comment:
Comments: Dental morphology and evolution studied by Shenbrot (1984). Allactodipodini was proposed for Allactodipus (Zazhigin and Lopatin, 2000a), but no type genus was explicitly indicated. Modern range of the subfamily is Asian (only Allactaga tetradactyla occurs in north Africa) and its evolutionary roots are in that continent. The first allactagine may have evolved from Asian late Oligocene Gobiosminthus (Zazhigin and Lopatin, 2000c) or Parasminthus (Wang and Qiu, 2000; McKenna and Bell, 1997, tr...