Allactaga (F. Cuvier, 1837)

Mary Ellen Holden, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Dipodidae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 487-499 : 488

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scientific name	Allactaga (F. Cuvier, 1837)
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Allactaga (F. Cuvier, 1837) View in CoL . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1836:141 [1837].

TYPE SPECIES: Mus jaculus Pallas, 1778 View in CoL (= Dipus sibericus major Kerr, 1792 ); see comments below.

SYNONYMS: Mesoallactaga, Microallactaga, Orientallactaga, Paralactaga, Scarturus, Scirteta, Scirtetes, Scirtomys (see Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951; and Pavlinov and Rossolimo, 1987).

COMMENTS: Does not include Allactodipus (see comment under Allactodipus bobrinskii ). Shenbrot's (1984) subgeneric classification is followed below except where noted. Subspecific revision of species occuring in the independant countries of the former USSR provided by Shenbrot (1991d). Mus jaculus Linnaeus, 1758 is the type species of Jaculus (see comments therein).