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Caviomorpha is the
rodent parvorder that
unites all New
World hystricognaths. It is
supported by both
fossil and
molecular evidence. The
Caviomorpha was...
- many
authorities consider them
either basal to all
hystricognaths or
basal to all
hystricognaths except the
Laotian rock rat (family Diatomyidae). Hystricidae...
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plate and the
relative size of the
infraorbital foramen,
distinguishes hystricognaths from
other rodent groups. The 18
families within the Hystricognathi...
- The
pacarana (Dinomys branickii) is a rare and slow-moving
hystricognath rodent indigenous to
South America.
Native Tupi
people call it the
pacarana (false...
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spreading to
North America in the late Miocene. Late in the Eocene,
hystricognaths invaded Africa, most
probably having originated in Asia at
least 39...
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largely limited to the
Greater Antilles, and two
other groups of
endemic hystricognaths, the
heteropsomyines and
giant hutias,
including the
extinct bear-sized...
- family, Laonastidae. They
suggested it was a
hystricognath rodent, but
basal to all
other hystricognaths. Dawson, et al, re-evaluated the phylogenetic...
- †Yuomyidae
Hystricognathiformes †Tsaganomyidae
Hystricognathi – true
hystricognaths †Baluchimyinae
Phiomorpha Bathyergidae –
blesmols †Bathyergoididae †Diamantomyidae...
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Porcupines are
large rodents with
coats of
sharp spines, or quills, that
protect them
against predation. The term
covers two
families of animals: the Old...
- Africa), is one of two
species of cane rats, a
small family of
African hystricognath rodents. It
lives by reed-beds and
riverbanks in Sub-Saharan Africa...
