Zapus Coues, 1875

Mary Ellen Holden, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Dipodidae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 487-499 : 499

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Zapus Coues, 1875 View in CoL . Bull. U.S. Geol. Geog. Surv. Terr., ser. 2, 5(3):253.

TYPE SPECIES: Dipus hudsonius Zimmermann, 1780 .

COMMENTS: Revised by Preble (1899) and Krutzsch (1954). Myology, in context of adaptive and phylogenetic significance, studied by Klingener (1964). Dental evolution investigated by Klingener (1963). For verification of the absence of cheek pouches in Zapus see Klingener (1971). Phallic morphology described by Shenbrot (1992).

References

Klingener, D. 1963. Dental evolution of Zapus. Journal of Mammalogy, 44 (2): 248 - 260.

Klingener, D. 1964. The comparative myology of four dipodoid rodents (genera Zapus, Napaeozapus, Sicista, and Jaculus). Miscellaneous Publications, Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, 124: 1 - 100.

Klingener, D. 1971. The question of cheek pouches in Zapus. Journal of Mammalogy, 52 (2): 463 - 464.

Krutzsch, P. H. 1954. North American jumping mice (genus Zapus). University of Kansas Publications, Museum of Natural History, 7 (4): 349 - 472.

Preble, E. A. 1899. Revision of the jumping mice of the genus Zapus. North American Fauna, 15: 1 - 41.

Shenbrot, G. I. 1992. [Cladistic approach to the analysis of phylogenetic relationships among dipodoid rodents (Rodentia, Dipodoidea)]. Sbornik Trudov Zoologicheskovo Muzeya MGU, 29: 176 - 201 (in Russian).