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Northern three-toed jerboa

Order : Rodentia
Suborder : Sciurognathi
Family : Dipodidae
Subfamily : Dipodinae
Genus : Dipus

Facts about the genus Dipus, the northern three-toed jerboa

The basic plot is that, shortly after dipus is born, his parents (his father is a king) learn from an oracle that he will kill his father and sleep with his mother.

The relationship between Salingotus, Cardiocranius, and paradipus is not clear from the consensus tree, because these three taxa occupy different positions in the three most parsimonious trees generated. (Full text)

And his pronunciation of the title character as "Ee-dipus" is downright odd. (Full text)

Main Entry: dipus dipus is one of more than 1,000,000 entries available at Merriam-WebsterUnabridged. (Full text)