Dipodomys Gray, 1841. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., [ser. 1], 7:521. TYPE SPECIES: Dipodomys phillipsii Gray 1841. SYNONYMS: Dipodops Merriam, Perodipus Fitzinger. COMMENTS: Interspecific relationships summarized by Setzer (1949), Lidicker (1960), Johnson and Selander (1971), Stock (1974), Best and Schnell (1974), and Schnell et al. (1978). Key to species given by Hall (1981:563-564) and Best (1991).Published as part of James L. Patton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Heteromyidae, pp. 477-486 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 477, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.735307