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Pedetes
Sign in to savePedetes is a genus of rodent, the springhares, in the family Pedetidae. Members of the genus are distributed across southern and Eastern Africa.
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- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumRotifera
- ClassEurotatoria
- OrderFlosculariaceae
- FamilyTrochosphaeridae
Pedetes est un genre de rongeurs qui comprend les lièvres sauteurs actuels. Souvent considéré comme monotypique, les recherches faites à partir de la fin du XXe siècle tendent à confirmer l'existence dans ce genre de deux espèces africaines à part entière, l'une à l'est de l'Afrique : Pedetes surdaster, et l'autre au sud : Pedetes capensis. Ce genre a été créé en 1811 par Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger (1775-1813), un entomologiste et zoologiste allemand.
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Pedetes is a genus of rodent, the springhares, in the family Pedetidae. Members of the genus are distributed across southern and Eastern Africa.
==Species== A number of species both extant and extinct are classified in the genus Pedetes. They include: South African springhare or springhaas (Pedetes capensis) East African springhare (Pedetes surdaster) Pedetes laetoliensis (Davies, 1987) (Pliocene fossil)
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