family spalacidae การใช้
- It specifically excludes the fossorial forms of mouse-like rodents in the family Spalacidae.
- The "'Judean Mountains blind mole-rat "'( " Spalax judaei " ) is an extant species of subterranean rodent within the family Spalacidae, indigenous to central Israel.
- The "'Chinese bamboo rat "'( " Rhizomys sinensis " ) is a species of rodent in the family Spalacidae found in southern China, southern Myanmar, and northern Vietnam.
- The "'Upper Galilee Mountains blind mole-rat "'( " Spalax galili " ) is an extant species of subterranean rodent within the family Spalacidae, indigenous to Upper Galilee in northern Israel.
- The "'East African mole-rat "'( " Tachyoryctes splendens " ) is a species of rodent in the family Spalacidae and is found in Ethiopia, Somalia and other parts of East and Central Africa.
- They can be distinguished from both the family Spalacidae and the Eumuroida ( all non-spalacid and non-platacanthomyid muroids ), by the distinct shape of their infraorbital canal and by the presence of multiple openings in the palate of the skull.
- Some muroids have historically been placed in Cricetidae, such as mouse-like hamsters ( subfamily Calomyscinae, family Calomyscidae ), gerbils ( subfamily Gerbillinae, family Muridae ), the crested rat ( subfamily Lophiomyinae, family Muridae ), zokors ( subfamily Myospalacinae, family Spalacidae ), the white-tailed rat ( subfamily Mystromyinae, family Nesomyidae ), and spiny dormice ( subfamily Platacanthomyinae, family Platacanthomyidae ).