Dipus

A variety of rodents such as gerbils (Rhombomys, Meriones), and more than ten species of jerboas (Allactaga, Dipus, Paradipus, Eremodipus, Stylodipus) are found here.

Central Asian northern desert 2008

This contrasts with the dipodine jerboas Paradipus, Dipus, Stylodipus, Eremodipus and Jaculus, all of which lack lateral digits and are tridactyl.

Archive 2006-03-01 Darren Naish 2006

One species – the Rough-legged jerboa Dipus sagitta – exhibits particularly interesting predator-avoidance behaviour: it not only leaps from predators, but, as it leaps, grabs at over-hanging foliage with its teeth and forelimbs, and then clambers into the vegetation to hide (Hanney 1975).

Archive 2006-03-01 Darren Naish 2006

Rodents characteristic of the Basin include Meriones unguiculatus, Dipus sagitta, Citellus erithrogenus, and Phodopus roborovskii.

Great Lakes Basin desert steppe 2007

It includes the true Jerboas (_Dipus_), the American Jumping Mice (_Zapus_), the

Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870

I mentioned in a former part of this work, that Mr. Browne and I had succeeded in capturing a Dipus, when journeying to the N.W. W. had subsequently taken another, and had kept them both for some time, but one died, and the other springing out of its box was killed by the dogs.

Expedition into Central Australia Charles Sturt 1832

In going along one of the flats, before we discovered the creek, Mr. Browne and I had chased a Dipus into a hollow log, and there secured it.

Expedition into Central Australia Charles Sturt 1832

None were afterwards seen until after the Barrier Range had been crossed, when about lat. 27 degrees several were captured alive, as detailed under the head Dipus.

Expedition into Central Australia Charles Sturt 1832

Dipus mitchellii, D. plantis subpentadactylis; corpore supra cinereo-fusco, subtus albido; auriculis magnis, cauda longissima, floccosa.

Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2 Thomas Mitchell 1823

Cascade artist Tom Gilleon, known for his paintings of tepees, created a unique piece during Art in Action - a nude mermaid, with lettering reading "Sipus et Dipus," across the top.

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