Northern Three-toed Jerboa

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Northern Three-toed Jerboa
Fossil range: Pleistocene - Recent
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Dipodidae
Subfamily: Dipodinae
Tribe: Dipodini
Genus: Dipus
Zimmermann, 1780
Species: D. sagitta
Binomial name
Dipus sagitta
(Pallas, 1773)

The Northern Three-toed Jerboa (Dipus sagitta) is a species of rodent in the Dipodidae family. It is monotypic within the genus Dipus. It is found in China, Iran, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Russia, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.

[edit] References

  • Baillie, J. 1996. Dipus sagitta. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 29 July 2007.
  • 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.
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