Dipodinae Fischer 1817

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Dipodidae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 871-893 : 882

Dipodinae Fischer 1817

Dipodinae Fischer 1817 , Mem. Soc. Imp. Nat. Moscow, 5: 372.

Synonyms: Dipsidae Gray 1821 ; Dipina Gray 1825 ; Dipodes Fischer de Waldheim 1817 ; Dipodina Bonaparte 1838 ; Dipodini Brandt 1855 ; Dipodum Fischer de Waldheim 1817 ; Gerboidae Waterhouse 1839 ; Jaculini Brandt 1855 ; Jaculina Haeckel 1866 ; Jaculinae Alston 1876 ; Paradipodini Pavlinov and Schenbrot 1983 ; Stylodipodina Zazhigin and Lopatin 2000 .

Genera: 5 genera with 9 species:

Genus Dipus Zimmermann 1780 (1 species)

Genus Eremodipus Vinogradov 1930 (1 species)

Genus Jaculus Erxleben 1777 (3 species)

Genus Paradipus Vinogradov 1930 (1 species)

Genus Stylodipus G. M. Allen 1925 (3 species)

Discussion: Stylodipodiina was proposed for Stylodipus by Zazhigin and Lopatin (2000 a) but no type genus was explicitly indicated. Zazhigin and Lopatin (2001) recorded four dipodine genera as occurring in Asia by late Miocene, the extinct Scirtodipus and Plioscirtopoda , and extant Dipus and Jaculus . Those authors also noted that by late Miocene-early Pliocene times, three phylogenetic lineages were already apparent. One consists only of Dipus ; another contains Scirtodipus (late Miocene), Stylodipus , and Plioscirtopoda (late Miocene to early Pleistocene; see also Kowalski, 2001); and the third is represented by Jaculus , Eremodipus , and the extinct Jaculodipus (early Pliocene). Both extinct and living forms are basically Eurasian in distribution, and only two species of Jaculus extend beyond that region to North Africa (see accounts of J. jaculus and J. orientalis ).