Family DIPODIDAE

(JERBOAS)

• Small to medium-sized rodents with short forelimbs; long, strong hindlimbs for bipedal movement; and long tails often ending with black and white brushes of long hairs.

• 10-50 cm.

• Palearctic and Afrotropical regions.

• Deserts, semi-deserts, and steppes.

• 13 genera, 35 species, 91 taxa.

• 1 species Vulnerable; none Extinct since 1600.