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n. - Old World jerboas.

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  • Incidentally, Dipodidae is sometimes used for the clade that includes birch mice and jumping mice, as well as jerboas.
  • The name Dipodidae obviously comes from ‘dipodes’ meaning ‘two-footed’, the term apparently used for jerboas by Herodotus (writing some time around 430 B.C.).
  • Coevolutionary events in the history of association between jerboas (Rodentia: Dipodidae) and their flea parasites.
  • However most rodent workers seem to favour the use of the family-level name Zapodidae for birch mice and jumping mice, with Dipodidae restricted to jerboas proper.
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