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