Jaculus Erxleben 1777

Jaculus Erxleben, 1777. Syst. Regni Anim., 1:404. TYPE SPECIES: Mus jaculus Linnaeus, 1758, as fixed by Opinion 730 of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (1965); not Jaculus orientalis Erxleben, 1777. SYNONYMS: Scirtopoda (incl. Haltomys) (see Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951; and Corbet, 1978c). COMMENTS: Myology, in context of adaptive and phylogenetic significance, studied by Klingener (1964).Published as part of Mary Ellen Holden, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Dipodidae, pp. 487-499 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 493, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.735307