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Zapus
Taxonomy
Zapus was named by Coues (1876). It is extant. Its type is Dipus hudsonius.
It was assigned to Zapodinae by Hay (1902); and to Zapodidae by Coues (1876), Kurten and Anderson (1980), McKenna and Bell (1997), Seymour (2004), Eshelman et al. (2025).
It was assigned to Zapodinae by Hay (1902); and to Zapodidae by Coues (1876), Kurten and Anderson (1980), McKenna and Bell (1997), Seymour (2004), Eshelman et al. (2025).
Species
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1876 | Zapus Coues |
| 1902 | Zapus Hay p. 732 |
| 1980 | Zapus Kurten and Anderson p. 270 |
| 1997 | Zapus McKenna and Bell |
| 2004 | Zapus Seymour |
| 2025 | Zapus Eshelman et al. p. 115 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
G. Zapus Coues 1876
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†Zapus adamsi Hibbard 1955
†Zapus burti Hibbard 1941
Zapus hudsonius Zimmermann 1780 [meadow jumping mouse]
Zapus princeps Allen 1893
†Zapus rinkeri Hibbard 1951
†Zapus sandersi Hibbard 1956
†Zapus sykesae Martin 1989
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| References: Ji et al. 2002, Carroll 1988, Samuels and Van Valkenburgh 2008, Hendy et al. 2009, Lillegraven 1979, Nowak 1999 | |||||
Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Gelasian to the top of the Holocene or 2.58000 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 1.8 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 1.8 Ma
Collections (40 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Blancan | USA (Kansas) | Z. rinkeri (19931) Z. sandersi (19938 19942 19943) Z. sp. (19940) | |
| Blancan | USA (Nebraska) | Z. sandersi (19964) | |
| Gelasian | USA (Kansas) | Z. burti (19927) | |
| Pleistocene | USA (West Virginia) | Z. hudsonius (125941) Z. sp. (123875) | |
| Quaternary | USA (Oregon) | Z. sp. (275384) | |
| Irvingtonian | USA (Pennsylvania) | Z. hudsonius (20354 20479) | |
| Irvingtonian | USA (West Virginia) | Z. hudsonius (20555) | |
| Irvingtonian | USA (Oklahoma) | Z. sp. (20309) | |
| Irvingtonian | USA (Nebraska) | Z. hudsonius (20143) Z. sandersi (20523) | |
| Irvingtonian | USA (South Dakota) | Z. sykesae (20389) | |
| Irvingtonian | USA (Utah) | Z. sp. (20405 20406) | |
| Irvingtonian | USA (Kansas) | Z. hudsonius (20422 20423 20516) Z. sandersi (20301 20352 20390) | |
| Irvingtonian | USA (Virginia) | Z. sp. (20388) | |
| Irvingtonian | USA (Florida) | Z. sp. (20350) | |
| Rancholabrean | USA (Michigan) | Z. sp. (70130) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | USA (West Virginia) | Z. hudsonius (93332 123868) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene (interglacial) | USA (Kansas) | Z. adamsi (20605) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | USA (Georgia) | Z. hudsonius (13066) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | USA (Virginia) | Z. hudsonicus (82258 104697) Z. hudsonius (103991 104758 124089) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene | USA (Virginia) | Z. sp. (104672) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene | USA (Missouri) | Z. sp. (63566) | |
| Holocene | USA (Montana) | Z. princeps (162133) |