Dipus Zimmermann 1780

Dipus Zimmermann 1780, Geogr. Gesch. Mensch. Vierf. Thiere, 2: 354.

Type Species: Mus sagitta Pallas 1773

Synonyms: Dipodipus Trouessart 1910; Dipsus Gray 1821; Sminthoides Schlosser 1924 .

Species and subspecies: 1 species:

Species Dipus sagitta (Pallas 1773)

Discussion: Dipodini. Shenbrot et al. (1995) and Zazhigin and Lopatin (2001) included the extinct Sminthoides (late Miocene to late Pliocene of Asia), but McKenna and Bell (1997) retained it as a separate genus in Dipodinae . For synonyms see Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951), McKenna and Bell (1997), and Zazhigin and Lopatin (2001).