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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.
Archive 2006-03-01 Darren Naish 2006
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There are also several species of the small, rodent-like mammals called jerboas (family Zapodidae) that inhabit the Junggar Basin.
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The three sub-families are _Zapodidae_, [28] _Dipodinae_ and _Pedetinae_, but we have only to deal with the second.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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Mammals characteristic of the Eastern Gobi Desert Steppe include Asian wild ass (Equus hemionus), Saiga antelope (Saiga tartarica mongolica), black-tailed gazelle (Gazella subgutturosa), marbled polecat (Vormela peregusna), and several species of Jerboa (Zapodidae).
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