1st Edition

Jerboas Mammals of Russia and Adjacent Regions

By G I Shenbrot, V.E. Sokolov, V.G. Heptner Copyright 2008

    This book is devoted to the description of the systematics and biology of forest mice and jerboas. It describes detailed morphological characteristics and includes keys for the identification of the families, genera and species. Detailed maps of distribution of species are compiled. Data on the biology is according to the set plan (population, habitat, feeding, daily and seasonal activity, behavior, reproduction, parasites and competitors, etc.). This book primarily focuses species found in Russia, Ukraine, Caucasus, Russian Central Asia and Transcaucasia. Brief coverage of species outside these regions is also included. The book is intended for mammalogists, systematists, ecologists, and zoogeographers.

    SUPERFAMILY OF DIPODOID RODENTS: Key for Identification of Families of the Superfamily Dipodoidea
    Family of Birch Mice: Genus of Birch Mouse Sicista Gray, 1827
    Key for Identification of Species of the Genus Sicista; Group of Unicolor Birch Mice of the Caucasus
    Family of Three-Toed and Pygmy Jerboa Dipodidae Fischer, 1817
    Key for Identification of Genera of the Family Dipodidae of Fauna of Russia, Ukraine, Caucasus, Kazakhstan and Russian Central Asia
    Subfamily of Pygmy Jerboas: Genus of Five-Toed Dwarf Jerboas
    Genus of Three-Toed Pygmy Jerboas
    Key for Identification of Species of the Genus Salpingotus of the Fauna of Russian Central Asia and Kazakhstan
    Subfamily of Comb-Toed Jerboas: Genus of Comb-Toed Jerboas
    Subfamily of Three-Toed Jerboas: Genus of Hairy-Footed Jerboas
    Genus of Thick-Tailed Three-Toed Jerboas
    Genus of African Desert Jerboas
    Genus of Desert Jerboas, Eremodipus
    Family of Five-Toed Jerboas
    Key to the Identification of Genera: Genus of Earth Hares, Allactaga
    Key to the Species of the Genus Allactaga
    Genus of Turanian Jerboas, Allactodipus
    Genus of Fat-Tailed Jerboas, Pygeretmus
    Key to the Species of the Genus Pygeretmus

    Biography

    G I Shenbrot