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GENUS Dipus
| Author: | Zimmermann, 1780. | | Citation: | Geogr. Gesch. Mensch. Vierf. Thiere, 2: 354. | | Type Species: | Mus sagitta Pallas, 1773. | | Comments: | Dipodini. Shenbrot et al. (1995) and Zazhigin and Lopatin (2001) included the extinct Sminthoides (late Miocene to late Pliocene of Asia), but McKenna and Bell (1997) retained it as a separate genus in Dipodinae. For synonyms see Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951), McKenna and Bell (1997), and Zazhigin and Lopatin (2001). |
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| Offspring: SPECIES sagitta | Synonyms:
Dipodipus Trouessart, 1910
Dipsus Gray, 1821
Sminthoides Schlosser, 1924
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