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Zokors are native to much of China, Kazakhstan, and Siberian Russia. Traditionally, zokors were thought to be closely related to either hamsters ( Cricetinae ) or voles ( Arvicolinae ), but recent molecular phylogenetic studies have demonstrated they are more closely related to blind mole-rats ( Spalacinae ) and root and bamboo rats ...
The actions of zokors have a significant effect on the ecology of an area. The physical actions of the animal loosens the surface soil, damaging roots and stems and reducing plant biomass . The mounds of excavated soil may overlay plants but provide colonisation opportunities for successional plant species to become established.
It includes the blind mole-rats, bamboo rats, mole-rats, and zokors. This family represents the oldest split (excluding perhaps the Platacanthomyidae ) in the muroid superfamily, and comprises animals adapted to a subterranean way of life.
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Zokors (subfamily Myospalacinae), root rats, and bamboo rats (subfamily Rhizomyinae) are spalacids also sometimes referred to as mole rats. Blind mole-rats are in the family Spalacidae , but are unique enough to be given a separate subfamily , Spalacinae .
The rodent family Platacanthomyidae, or Oriental dormice, includes the spiny dormice and the Chinese pygmy dormice.In spite of their appearance, these animals are not true dormice, but are part of the large and complex superfamily Muroidea.
The Muroidea are a large superfamily of rodents, including mice, rats, voles, hamsters, lemmings, gerbils, and many other relatives.Although the Muroidea originated in Eurasia, [1] they occupy a vast variety of habitats on every continent except Antarctica.
The most convenient distinguishing feature of the Arvicolinae is the nature of their molar teeth, which have prismatic cusps in the shape of alternating triangles. These molars are an adaptation to a herbivorous diet in which the major food plants include a large proportion of abrasive materials such as phytoliths; the teeth get worn down by abrasion throughout the adult life of the animal and ...