The Spalacidae, or spalacids, are a family of rodents in the large and complex superfamily Muroidea. They are native to eastern Asia, the Horn of Africa, the Middle East, and southeastern Europe. It includes the blind mole-rats, bamboo rats, mole-rats, and zokors. This family represents the oldest split (excluding perhaps the Platacanthomyidae) in the muroid superfamily, and comprises animals adapted to a subterranean way of life. These rodents were thought to have evolved adaptations to living underground independently until recent genetic studies demonstrated they form a monophyletic group.[citation needed] Members of the Spalacidae are often placed in the family Muridae along with all other members of the Muroidea.
The Spalacidae, or spalacids, are a family of rodents in the large and complex superfamily Muroidea. They are native to eastern Asia, the Horn of Africa...
Spalax is a genus of rodent in the family Spalacidae, subfamily Spalacinae (blind mole-rats). It is one of two extant genera in the subfamily Spalacinae...
Malagasy rats and mice Family Platacanthomyidae: spiny dormice Family Spalacidae: mole rats, bamboo rats, zokors Suborder Sciuromorpha Family Aplodontiidae:...
Myospalax is a genus of rodents in the family Spalacidae. It contains these species of zokor: False zokor, M. aspalax Siberian zokor, M. myospalax Transbaikal...
Nannospalax is a genus of rodent in the family Spalacidae, found in eastern Europe and western Asia. It is one of two genera in the blind mole-rats (subfamily...
Indomalayan rat (Rhizomys sumatrensis) is a species of rodent in the family Spalacidae found in Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand...
Chinese bamboo rat (Rhizomys sinensis) is a species of rodent in the family Spalacidae found in southern China, northern Myanmar, and northern Vietnam. Its habitat...
mole-rats (Spalacinae) and root and bamboo rats (Rhizomyinae) in the family Spalacidae. It appears that one of the first important evolutionary splits in muroid...
Siberian zokor (Myospalax myospalax) is a species of rodent in the family Spalacidae. It is found in Kazakhstan and Russia. Cassola, F. (2016). "Myospalax...
pocket gophers of North America, the tuco-tucos in South America, or the Spalacidae from Eurasia. Modern blesmols are found strictly in sub-Saharan Africa...
This is a list of mammals of Europe. It includes all mammals currently found in Europe (from northeast Atlantic to Ural Mountains and northern slope of...
Family Platacanthomyidae (spiny dormice and Chinese pygmy dormice) Family Spalacidae (blind mole-rats and bamboo rats) Family Calomyscidae (mouse-like hamsters)...
relatively narrow zygomatic plate. The fossorially specialized family Spalacidae shows peculiarities in the condition of the zygomatic plate. In Tachyoryctes...
Lophiomyinae, family Muridae), zokors (subfamily Myospalacinae, family Spalacidae), the white-tailed rat (subfamily Mystromyinae, family Nesomyidae), and...
Eospalax is a genus of rodents in the family Spalacidae. It contains these species: Chinese zokor, E. fontanierii Rothschild's zokor, E. rothschildi Smith's...
Rodents are animals that gnaw with two continuously growing incisors. Forty percent of mammal species are rodents, and they inhabit every continent except...
false zokor (Myospalax aspalax) is a species of rodent in the family Spalacidae. It is found in eastern Khentei and eastern Khingan in Mongolia and in...
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