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Bamboo and Root Rats
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Bamboo and Root Rats

Rhizomyinae

The rodent subfamily Rhizomyinae includes the Asian bamboo rats and certain of the African mole-rats. The subfamily is grouped with the Spalacinae and the Myospalacinae into a family of fossorial muroid rodents basal to the other Muroidea.

The group includes 17 species classified in three genera and two tribes:

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2 branches of this subfamily, most-observed first · about 6 known species

Bamboo Rats

tribeRhizomyini

Root Rats

tribeTachyoryctini

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 846210.