Tatera Lataste 1882
Creators: name: Musser, Guy G.
name: Carleton, Michael D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Tatera

description: <i>Tatera</i> Lataste, 1882. Le Naturaliste, Paris 2:126. TYPE SPECIES: <i>Dipus indicus</i> Hardwicke, 1807. SYNONYMS: <i>Gerbilliscus, Taterona.</i> 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 <i>T. boehmi,</i> he considered all the species to cluster either in an <i>afra</i> group or <i>robusta</i> group. Chromosomal information for some species was reported by Matthey and Petter (1970). Results of craniometric studies of Angolan <i>Tatera</i> were presented by Crawford-Cabral (1988) and Crawford-Cabral and Pacheco (1991). Pavlinov et al. (1990) regarded true <i>Tatera</i> to consist only of the Asian species <i>T. indica,</i> placed all the African species in the genus <i>Gerbilliscus</i> (subgenera <i>Gerbilliscus</i> and <i>Taterona),</i> and identified <i>Taterillus</i> 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 <i>Tatera, Taterona,</i> and <i>Gerbilliscus</i> <i>.</i>
description: Published as part of <i>Guy G. Musser &amp; 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</i> on page 560, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098
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