• Source: Petromuridae

Petromuridae is a family of hystricognath rodents that contains the dassie rat (Petromus typicus) of southwestern Africa, the only extant member of this group.
The genus Petromus contains a couple of extinct species, and additionally there are fossil genera formerly of the family Thryonomyidae that were found to belong to this family instead; Apodecter, Tufamys and two species of Paraphiomys (australis and roessneri) which have yet to be placed in their own genus.




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Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Hewan pengerat
• Landak
• Petromuridae
• Rock rat
• Porcupine
• Rodent
• Hystricognathi
• Phiomorpha
• Mammal classification
• Dassie rat
• Naked mole-rat
• List of rodents