Pedetes

For other uses, see Pedetes (disambiguation).

Springhare
Temporal range: Middle Pliocene to Recent[1][2]3.85–0 Ma
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South African springhare (P. capensis)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Pedetidae
Genus: Pedetes
Illiger, 1811
Type species
Yerbua capensis
Species

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Pedetes is a genus of rodent, the springhares, in the family Pedetidae.[3] Members of the genus are distributed across southern and Eastern Africa.

  1. ^ McKenna, M.C. and Bell, S.K. 1997. Classification of Mammals: Above the species level. New York: Columbia University Press, 631 pp. ISBN 978-0-231-11013-6 (p. 185)
  2. ^ "Fossilworks: Pedetes". fossilworks.org. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
  3. ^ Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M., eds. (2005). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.