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Diatomyidae

Diatomyidae
Temporal range: Early Oligocene - Recent
Young male Laotian rock rat, Laonastes aenigmamus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Suborder: Hystricomorpha
Superfamily: Ctenodactyloidea
Family: Diatomyidae
Mein & Ginsburg, 1997
Type genus
Diatomys
Li, 1974
Genera

Laonastes
Diatomys
Fallomus
Marymus
Willmus
Inopinatia
? Pierremus

Synonyms

Laonastidae Jenkins et al. 2005

Diatomyidae is a family of hystricomorph rodents. It is represented by a single living species, Laonastes aenigmamus, native to Laos in Southeast Asia. Fossil species are known from the Oligocene and Miocene of Asia and eastern Europe.


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