Petromuridae

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title: Petromuridae
text: 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 which have yet to be placed in their own genus.
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description: Family of rodents
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petromuridae
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date modified: 2023-01-04T10:50:42Z
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