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African rock mice,
swamp mice,
pouched rats, and the white-tailed rat.
Nesomyids are small- to medium-sized rodents, with the
largest being the size of...
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suggesting that they must have dis****d
rapidly across South America.
Nesomyid rodents are
thought to have
rafted from
Africa to
Madagascar 20–24 million...
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Extinct in the wild (EW): 2
species Critically endangered (CR): 203
species Endangered (EN): 505
species Vulnerable (VU): 536
species Near threatened...
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muroids such as
climbing mice,
Malagasy mice, and the white-tailed rat. All
nesomyids are in the
superfamily Muroidea, a
large and
complex clade containing...
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Madagascar also
appears to have
received its
tenrecs (25–42 Ma ago),
nesomyid rodents (20–24 Ma ago) and
euplerid carnivorans (19–26 Ma ago) by this...
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Hemimerids are
relatively small (5–15 mm) and
inhabit the fur of
giant nesomyid rats in Africa.
Hemimerids have short,
broad legs with
grooves that allow...
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Extinct in the wild (EW): 2
species Critically endangered (CR): 203
species Endangered (EN): 505
species Vulnerable (VU): 536
species Near threatened...
- The white-tailed rat (Mystromys albicaudatus) also
known as the white-tailed mouse, is the only
member of the
subfamily Mystromyinae in the
family Nesomyidae...
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Extinct in the wild (EW): 2
species Critically endangered (CR): 203
species Endangered (EN): 505
species Vulnerable (VU): 536
species Near threatened...
- This is a list of
Madagascar and
Indian Ocean Island animals extinct in the
Holocene that
covers extinctions from the
Holocene epoch, a
geologic epoch...
