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The jerboa group comprises the majority of its family, dipodidae. They are small, primarily desert-dwelling rodents found throughout northern Africa and Asia and known for hopping locomotion using their two long, kangaroo-like legs. The most well-known member of this species group is likely the long-eared jerboa.

As this is an informal group (similar to jackal or badger), it instead contains several subfamilies of dipodidae rather than definite subfamilies or genera. Those subfamilies are:

• Allactaginae
• Cardiocraniinae (pygmy jerboas)
• baluchistan pygmy jerboa (Salpingotus michaelis)
• Dipodinae
• greater egyptian jerboa (Jaculus orientalis)
• Euchoreutinae
• long-eared jerboa (Euchoreutes naso)

This group is not to be confused with mice or other murine/murid rodents as they are from entirely different families. It should also not be confused with the kangaroo rat or kangaroo mouse, both of which are members of a separate but superficially-similar family, heteromyidae.

More information:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerboa