SPALACIDAE, Gray, 1821

Don E. Wilson, Russell A. Mittermeier & Thomas E. Lacher, Jr, 2017, Spalacidae, Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 7 Rodents II, Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, pp. 108-142 : 108

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.6609100

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6608830

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scientific name

SPALACIDAE
status

 

Family SPALACIDAE View in CoL

(MUROID MOLE-RATS)

• Small to medium-sized rodents with adaptations for subterranean life such as cylindrical bodies, enlarged incisors, and reduced tails, eyes, and ear pinnae.

• 13-70 cm. View Figure

• Palearctic, Afrotropical, and Indo-Malayan regions. View Figure

• Steppes, grasslands, meadows, forests, bamboo thickets, and farmlands.

• 7 genera, 28 species, 4H taxa.

• 2 species Endangered, 1 species Vulnerable; none Extinct since 1600.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Spalacidae

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