Cardiocraniinae

Subfamily of rodents

Cardiocraniinae

Cardiocranius paradoxus on a Soviet Union stamp of 1985
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Dipodidae
Subfamily:	Cardiocraniinae Vinogradov, 1925

Cardiocraniinae is a subfamily of rodents in the family Dipodidae, named by the Russian zoologist Boris Stepanovich Vinogradov (1891–1958) in 1925. These jumping rodents are small mammals, less than 20 cm long.

Taxonomy

Genus Cardiocranius
- Five-toed pygmy jerboa, Cardiocranius paradoxus
Genus Salpingotulus
- Baluchistan pygmy jerboa, Salpingotulus michaelis
Genus Salpingotus, pygmy jerboas
- Subgenus Anguistodontus
  - Thick-tailed pygmy jerboa, Salpingotus crassicauda
- Subgenus Prosalpingotus
  - Heptner's pygmy jerboa, Salpingotus heptneri
  - Pale pygmy jerboa, Salpingotus pallidus
  - Thomas's pygmy jerboa, Salpingotus thomasi
- Subgenus Salpingotus
  - Kozlov's pygmy jerboa, Salpingotus kozlovi

References

Wikispecies has information related to Cardiocraniinae.

Holden, M.E.; Musser, G.G. (2005). "Subfamily Cardiocraniinae". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 879–882. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.