The genus Jaculus is a member of the Dipodinae subfamily of dipodoid rodents (jerboas). Jaculus species are distributed in desert and semi-arid regions across northern Africa, the Sahara, the Horn of Africa, Arabia, the Middle East, and Central Asia.
| Jaculus Temporal range: Middle Miocene - Recent
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| Jaculus orientalis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Dipodidae |
| Subfamily: | Dipodinae |
| Tribe: | Dipodini |
| Genus: | Jaculus Erxleben, 1777 |
| Type species | |
| Mus jaculus | |
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Collectively, the species within the genus may be commonly referred to as "desert jerboas", although this more particularly applied to the lesser Egyptian jerboa (Jaculus jaculus).[1]
Species
editThe following species are recognised for the genus Jaculus:
- Blanford's jerboa, Jaculus blanfordi
- Lesser Egyptian jerboa, Jaculus jaculus
- Greater Egyptian jerboa, Jaculus orientalis
- Thaler's jerboa Jaculus thaleri
- African hammada jerboa Jaculus hirtipes
References
edit- ^ Myers et al. (2006).
Sources
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- 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.
- Myers, P.; R. Espinosa; C. S. Parr; T. Jones; G. S. Hammond; T. A. Dewey (2006). "Genus Jaculus". The Animal Diversity Web (online). The Regents of the University of Michigan. Retrieved 2012-02-26.
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