Allactaga (F. Cuvier, 1837) . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1836:141 [1837].

TYPE SPECIES: Mus jaculus Pallas, 1778 (= Dipus sibericus major Kerr, 1792); see comments below.

SYNONYMS: Mesoallactaga, Microallactaga, Orientallactaga, Paralactaga, Scarturus, Scirteta, Scirtetes, Scirtomys (see Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951; and Pavlinov and Rossolimo, 1987).

COMMENTS: Does not include Allactodipus (see comment under Allactodipus bobrinskii). Shenbrot's (1984) subgeneric classification is followed below except where noted. Subspecific revision of species occuring in the independant countries of the former USSR provided by Shenbrot (1991d). Mus jaculus Linnaeus, 1758 is the type species of Jaculus (see comments therein).