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	jerboa on Encyclopedia.com
		(jerbō´e), name for the small, jumping rodents of the family Dipodidae, found in arid parts of Asia, N Africa, and SE Europe.
		Jerboas have extremely long hind feet and short forelegs; they always walk upright or hop like kangaroos.
		They are classified in 10 genera of the phylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebrata, class Mammalia, order Rodentia, family Dipodidae.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/j1/jerboa.asp (465 words)

	A Mammalian Convergence on the Avian Tarsometatarsus
		Thanks are due Malcolm C. McKenna and Richard H. Tedford for pointing out the occurrence of metatarsal fusion in the Dipodidae and to Ray Gooris for drawing Figure 1.
		It is of interest that at least one other verte- brate group, the Dipodidae (Mammalia, Old World Jerboas) has developed a strikingly similar skeletal element.
		Additionally on the distal end (Figure 1C), the trochleae are centrally ridged on the posterior surface and smooth on the anterior surface instead of being centrally grooved as in birds.
	elibrary.unm.edu /sora/Auk/v090n03/p0676-p0677.html (549 words)

	Rodent -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Family (Small New World burrowing mouselike rodents with fur-lined cheek pouches and hind limbs and tail adapted to leaping; adapted to desert conditions: pocket mice; kangaroo mice; kangaroo rats) Heteromyidae: kangaroo mice
		Superfamily (Essential equal to suborder Myomorpha with the Dipodidae excluded) Muroidea
		The positions of the (Beavers) Castoridae, Geomyoidea, (additional info and facts about Anomaluridae) Anomaluridae, and (additional info and facts about Pedetidae) Pedetidae are still being debated.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/ro/rodent.htm (936 words)

	Jerboa -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		(20 cm) long; hind legs enable it to leap as much as 10 ft (3 m) in one bound; forages for food at night; burrows in ground during day; about 25 species exist in the family Dipodidae.
		Certain traits are highly variable between species, particularly the size of the ears, which range from small and round to...
		In the western and southern areas with a Mediterranean climate, such animals as deer, wild goats, lynxes, wildcats, bears, and occasionally leopards are found.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9327554 (683 words)

	Evolutionary History of the Most Speciose Mammals: Molecular Phylogeny of Muroid Rodents -- Michaux et al. 18 (11): ...
		of Dipodidae as an outgroup for the Muridae.
		For Dipodidae, we found that GC values were between human and Muridae values.
		Dipodidae, or humans), and is more conserved at both the amino
	mbe.oxfordjournals.org /cgi/content/full/18/11/2017 (7289 words)

	MavicaNET - Birch mice, jumping mice, jerboas (Dipodidae) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		MavicaNET - Birch mice, jumping mice, jerboas (Dipodidae)
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		Katalog / Priroda / Život / Animals (Animalia) / Mammals (Mammalia) / Gnawing mammals (Rodentia) / Gnawing mammals (Rodentia): taxonomy / Birch mice, jumping mice, jerboas (Dipodidae)
	www.mavicanet.ru /lite/hrv/21682.html (138 words)

	jerboa
		of the family Dipodidae, found in arid parts of Asia, N Africa, and SE Europe.
		, subphylum Vertebrata, class Mammalia, order Rodentia, family Dipodidae.
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