- The
rodent family Platacanthomyidae, or
Oriental dormice,
includes the
spiny dormice and the
Chinese pygmy dormice. In
spite of
their appearance, these...
- subfamilies,
around 280 genera, and at
least 1,750 species.
Family Platacanthomyidae (spiny
dormouse and
pygmy dormice)
Family Spalacidae (fossorial muroids)...
- true mice, true rats, and gerbils).
Superfamily Muroidea Family Platacanthomyidae (spiny
dormice and
Chinese pygmy dormice)
Family Spalacidae (blind...
- mice, rock mice, white-tailed rat,
Malagasy rats and mice
Family Platacanthomyidae:
spiny dormice Family Spalacidae: mole rats,
bamboo rats,
zokors Suborder...
- are
families Craseonycteridae (Kitti's hog-nosed bat), Diatomyidae,
Platacanthomyidae,
Tarsiidae (tarsiers) and
Hylobatidae (gibbons).
Large mammals characteristic...
- Nesomyidae), and
spiny dormice (subfamily Platacanthomyinae,
family Platacanthomyidae).
Multigene DNA
sequence studies have
shown the
subfamilies listed...
-
Rodents are
animals that gnaw with two
continuously growing incisors.
Forty percent of
mammal species are rodents, and they
inhabit every continent except...
- horizontal,
narrow zygomatic plates.
Members of the
small family Platacanthomyidae have a
relatively narrow zygomatic plate. The
fossorially specialized...
- zokors. This
family represents the
oldest split (excluding
perhaps the
Platacanthomyidae) in the
muroid superfamily, and
comprises animals adapted to a subterranean...
- dormouse, (Typhlomys cinereus) is a
species of
rodent of the
family Platacanthomyidae found in
China and Vietnam.
Musser and
Carleton (2005) recognized...
