Subfamily Paradipodinae Pavlinov and Shenbrot, 1983 . Trudy Zoolog. Inst. Akad. Nauk SSSR, Lenin, 119:87.

COMMENTS: Shenbrot (1992) showed that Paradipus is highly differentiated from Dipodinae (in which it has traditionally been placed), and that Paradipodinae appears to be most closely related to Cardiocraniinae, based on molar and mastoid characters. Paradipus was not included in Stein's (1990) study of limb myology.