Allactaga

Taxobox
name = "Allactaga"


fossil_range = Late Miocene - Recent
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
familia = Dipodidae
genus = "Allactaga"
genus_authority = Cuvier, 1836
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = "Allactaga elater"
"Allactaga firouzi"
"Allactaga hotsoni"
"Allactaga major"
"Allactaga severtzovi"
"Allactaga vinogradovi"
"Allactaga balikunica"
"Allactaga bullata"
"Allactaga sibirica"
"Allactaga euphratica"
"Allactaga williamsi"
"Allactaga tetradactyla"

The genus "Allactaga" contains the four and five-toed jerboas of Asia.

Characteristics

These are hopping rodents of desert and semi-arid regions with long ears, tails and feet. All members of the genus have five toes except for a single species, the Four-toed Jerboa, "Allactaga tetradactyla" of Northern Africa, which has four. Members of this genus can jump distances of greater than one meter.

They are usually nocturnal and members of the genus have relatively large eyes. Diet varies by species, with some feeding almost exclusively on vegetation and others being insectivorous. Captured specimens have lived over four years.

pecies

*Genus "Allactaga"
**Subgenus "Allactaga"
***"Allactaga elater" - Small Five-toed Jerboa
***"Allactaga firouzi" - Iranian Jerboa
***"Allactaga hotsoni" - Hotson's Jerboa
***"Allactaga major" - Great Jerboa
***"Allactaga severtzovi" - Severtzov's Jerboa
***"Allactaga vinogradovi" - Vinogradov's Jerboa
**Subgenus "Orientallactaga"
***"Allactaga balikunica" - Balikun Jerboa
***"Allactaga bullata" - Gobi Jerboa
***"Allactaga sibirica" - Mongolian Five-toed Jerboa
**Subgenus "Paralactaga"
***"Allactaga euphratica" - Euphrates Jerboa
***"Allactga williamsi" - Williams's Jerboa
**Subgenus "Scarturus"
***"Allactaga tetradactyla" - Four-toed Jerboa

References

*Duff, A. and A. Lawson. 2004. Mammals of the World A Checklist. New Haven, Yale University Press.
*Holden, M. E. and G. G. Musser. 2005. Family Dipodidae. Pp. 871-893 "in" Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
*Nowak, R. M. 1999. Walker's Mammals of the World, Vol. 2. Johns Hopkins University Press, London.