Pedetidae
Family of rodents
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The Pedetidae are a family of rodents.[4][5][6][7][8][9] The two living species, the springhares, are distributed throughout much of Southern Africa and also around Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda.[10] Fossils have been found as far north as Turkey.[11] Together with the anomalures and zenkerella, Pedetidae forms the suborder Anomaluromorpha. The fossil genus Parapedetes is also related.[11]
| Pedetidae Temporal range: Early Miocene to Recent [1] | |
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| Springhare (Pedetes sp.) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Suborder: | Anomaluromorpha |
| Family: | Pedetidae Gray, 1825[2][3] |
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| Pedetidae distribution. Pedetes capensis in red, Pedetes surdaster in green. | |
Taxonomy
The family includes one living genus and four extinct genera. The Asian fossil Diatomys was previously included,[11] but is now classified in the family Diatomyidae with the Laotian rock rat.
- Family Pedetidae
- Genus Pedetes[12]
- South African springhare, P. capensis
- †Pedetes gracilis
- †Pedetes hagenstadti
- East African springhare, P. surdaster
- Genus †Megapedetes[12]
- †Megapedetes aegaeus
- †Megapedetes gariepensis
- †Megapedetes pentadactylus
- Genus †Oldrichpedetes[12]
- †Oldrichpedetes brigitteae
- †Oldrichpedetes fejfari
- †Oldrichpedetes pickfordi
- †Oldrichpedetes praecursor
- Genus †Propedetes
- †Propedetes efeldensis
- †Propedetes laetoliensis
- Genus †Rusingapedetes[12]
- †Rusingapedetes tsujikawai
- Genus Pedetes[12]