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Beavers, Pocket Gophers, and Allies
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Beavers, Pocket Gophers, and Allies

Castorimorpha

Castorimorpha is the suborder of rodents containing the beavers, gophers and the kangaroo rats. A 2017 study using retroposon markers indicated that they are most closely related to the Anomaluromorpha (the scaly-tailed squirrels and the springhare) and Myomorpha (mouse-like rodents).

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3 branches of this suborder, most-observed first · about 124 known species

Beavers

familyCastoridae

Pocket Gophers

familyGeomyidae

Kangaroo Rats and Pocket Mice

familyHeteromyidae

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 870764.