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1853, James Dwight Dana, United States Exploring Expedition: 14: Crustacea, page 825:... the family of gressorial Gammarids, which is subtypical.
- 1856, W. Clark (translator), Jan van der Hoeven (author of the original Dutch text), Van der Hoeven's Zoology, I, page 649:
- Feet of trunk all gressorial, slender, terminated by a short claw, often bifid.
1877, Elliott Coues, Allen (Joel Asaph), Report of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories: Monographs of North American Rodentia, page 532: he forelimbs small and neat, indicating predominance of prehensile over merely gressorial faculties; the hinder limbs are of great size, as perfectly saltatorial as those of a Kangaroo or Jerboa; and the tail is longer than the body. Notwithstanding the saltatorial nature of the animal , there is none of that