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Tatera Lataste 1882

Description

Tatera Lataste, 1882. Le Naturaliste, Paris 2:126.

TYPE SPECIES: Dipus indicus Hardwicke, 1807.

SYNONYMS: Gerbilliscus, Taterona.

COMMENTS: A member of the tribe Taterillini according to Pavlinov et al. (1990). Taxonomic revisions of various inclusiveness were provided by Pirlot (1955) and Bates (1985, 1988). Davis (1975a) presented a review of the genus, in which, aside from T. boehmi, he considered all the species to cluster either in an afra group or robusta group. Chromosomal information for some species was reported by Matthey and Petter (1970). Results of craniometric studies of Angolan Tatera were presented by Crawford-Cabral (1988) and Crawford-Cabral and Pacheco (1991). Pavlinov et al. (1990) regarded true Tatera to consist only of the Asian species T. indica, placed all the African species in the genus Gerbilliscus (subgenera Gerbilliscus and Taterona), and identified Taterillus as its closest relative. There are distinctive features separating the Asian from all the African species, but we are unconvinced they are not part of the same monophyletic group and treat them that way by allocating the species among the subgenera Tatera, Taterona, and Gerbilliscus .

Notes

Published as part of Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, pp. 501-755 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 560, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098

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Biodiversity

Family
Muridae
Genus
Tatera
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Rodentia
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Lataste
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Tatera Lataste, 1882 sec. Musser & Carleton, 1993

References

  • Pavlinov, I. Ya., Yu. A. Dubrovsky, O. L. Rossolimo, and E. G. Potapova. 1990. [Gerbils of the world.] Nauka, Moscow, 368 pp. (in Russian).
  • Pirlot, P. L. 1955. Variabilite intra-generique chez un rongeur africain. Annales du Musee Royal du Congo Belge, Tervuren (Belgique), Serie in 8, Sciences Zoologiques, 39: 1 - 66.
  • Bates, P. J. J. 1985. Studies of gerbils of genus Tatera: The specific distinction of Tatera robusta (Cretzschmar, 1826), Tatera nigricauda (Peters, 1878) and Tatera phillipsi (De Winton, 1898). Mammalia, 49: 37 - 52.
  • Bates, P. J. J. 1988. Systematics and zoogeography of Tatera (Rodentia: Gerbillinae) of north-east Africa and Asia. Bonner Zoologische Beitrage, 39: 265 - 303.
  • Davis, D. H. S. 1975 a. Genera Tatera and Gerbillurus. Part 6.4. Pp. 1 - 7, in The mammals of Africa: An identification manual (J. Meester, and H. W. Setzer, eds.) [issued 10 Dec 1975]. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C., not continuously paginated.
  • Matthey, R., and F. Petter. 1970. Etude cytogenetique et taxonomique de 40 Tatera et Taterillus provenant de Haute-Volta et de Republique Centrafricaine (Rongeurs, Gerbillidae). Mammalia, 34: 585 - 597.
  • Crawford-Cabral, J. 1988. A craniometric study on Angolan gerbils of the subgenus Tatera (Mammalia, Rodentia, Gerbillidae). Part I: Results from a principal components analysis. Zoologische Abhandlungen Staatliches Museum fur Tierkunde in Dresden, 43: 169 - 192.
  • Crawford-Cabral, J., and A. P. Pacheco. 1991. A craniometric study on Angolan gerbils of subgenus Tatera (Mammalia, Rodentia, Gerbillidae). Part II: Results from discriminant and cluster analysis. Zoologische Abhandlungen Staatliches Museum fur Tierkunde in Dresden, 46: 215 - 224.