Allactaga elater
(Lichtenstein, 1828) · speciesAt a glance
Sources8 archives
Databases and archives Allactaga elater's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation13 languages↗
Animal Diversity WebUniv. of Michigan MZspecies account↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility212 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI43 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics36 specimens↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
The small five-toed jerboa (Allactaga elater) is a rodent of the family Dipodidae and genus Allactaga, that has five digits.Holden, M. E. and Musser, G. G. (2005) "Family Dipodidae", pp. 871–893 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder (eds.) Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. They are hopping rodents of the rocky deserts in Asia. They have been found in Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, China, Georgia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkey, and Turkmenistan. They have long hind feet, short forelimbs, and walk upright.Lagassé, Paul (2000) "Jerboa." in The Columbia Encyclopedia. 6th ed. New York: Columbia UP. The jerboa body length ranges from 5–15 cm and has a tail ranging from 7–25 cm."Jerboa (rodent)." Encyclopædia Britannica. . They have large ears in comparison to their body size and a large tail. The tail assists and serves as support when the jerboa is standing upright.Kirmiz, John P. (1962) Adaptation to Desert Environment; A Study on the Jerboa, Rat and Man. London: Butterworths. p. 17. These hopping rodents can reach a speed up to 48 km/hr. The forelimbs of the jerboa serve as a pair of hands for feeding, grooming, etc.Kirmiz, John P. (1962) Adaptation to Desert Environment; A Study on the Jerboa, Rat and Man. London: Butterworths. p. 29. The male jerboa is usually larger in size and weight in comparison to the female jerboa. The pelt of the jerboa is either silky or velvety in texture and light in color, the coloration helps camouflage into surroundings to avoid predators. "Its coloration varies from sandy or buff to dark russet or black with pale under parts and a white strip on the hip”.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Size & morphology1
Life cycle & reproduction6
Diet & foraging3
Habitat & environment1
Physiology & chemistry2
Other traits2
A DNA barcode is a short, standardised stretch of genes that works like a fingerprint — enough to tell one species from another. Below is the molecular trace Allactaga elater has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
★ the standard DNA barcode for this group — the short region actually read to tell this species apart. The rest are extra genes sequenced along the way.
How far back this lineage goes — and how we know. Everything here is measured in Ma, short for “mega-annum”: millions of years ago. The chart reads left to right like a calendar of the Earth, from the deep past on the left to today at the right edgetop to bottom like a core drilled through the Earth, from the deep past at the top down to today at the bottom.
At a glance
When this lineage existed
How to read this: the coloured strip along the bottomdown the left is the geological calendar — the standard epochs (Pliocene, Pleistocene…) every museum uses, shown so you can see which chapter of Earth's history this lineage lived in. This lineage is a young one, so the strip is zoomed in to epochs — the finer subdivisions inside a period. The orange marker is the DNA clock: DNA accumulates mutations at a roughly steady rate, so comparing this species' DNA with its relatives estimates when the lineage split off — independently of any fossil.
Record type212 records
Range
Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence
Backed by a physical specimen — a herbarium sheet, sample or voucher held in a collection. “Vouchered” means supported by material evidence, not just an observation.
Holding institutions12 of 15 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| Chicago, US | 75 |
| Zoological Museum, Moscow Lomonosov State Universitylocation not on record | 48 |
| Bonn, DE | 44 |
| Ann Arbor, US | 22 |
| Berkeley, US | 5 |
| Washington, US | 4 |
| Wuzhou, CN | 3 |
| Cambridge, US | 2 |
| München, DE | 2 |
| Lubbock, US | 1 |
| Helsinki, FI | 1 |
| Theriological Collection of Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National Universitylocation not on record | 1 |
| Brussels, BE | 1 |
| RBINS-Scientific Heritagelocation not on record | 1 |
| Seattle, US | 1 |
Where the DNA of Allactaga elater was picked up in samples of water, soil or air — nobody saw the organism, only its DNA left behind. A trace is a clue that the species was near, not a confirmed sighting.
Signal
Where its DNA was found
How strong is each trace?
Modelled climatemodelled
How to read this: each dot is one detection of this species' DNA in an environmental sample. The confidence meter weighs how many independent studies and places back up the signal — one detection in one study is a hint; many across several studies is solid. Records dated before 2008 (when eDNA methods began) are treated as likely mislabeled and left off the map.