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  2. Fossorial - Wikipedia

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    A fossorial animal (from Latin fossor 'digger') is one that is adapted to digging and which lives primarily (but not solely) underground. Examples of fossorial vertebrates are badgers , naked mole-rats , meerkats , armadillos , wombats , and mole salamanders . [ 1 ]

  3. Rodent - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 17 January 2025. Order of mammals Rodent Temporal range: Late Paleocene – recent PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N Capybara Springhare Golden-mantled ground squirrel North American beaver House mouse Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Mirorder ...

  4. Plains pocket gopher - Wikipedia

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    Fossorial adaptations include small eyes, short, naked ears, and large fore feet with heavy claws. Zygomatic arches are widely flared, providing ample room for muscle attachment, [5] although, unlike other pocket gophers, this species does not use the curved incisors to assist the feet in digging. [3]

  5. Brasilodon - Wikipedia

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    The large tuberosity near the deltopectoral crest of the humerus implies that the teres major muscle (an important retractor muscle of the forelimb) was quite large, as seen in modern fossorial rodents. The digging adaptations of Brasilodon were however less pronounced than in modern fossorial mammals, as well as many other non-mammalian cynodonts.

  6. Fossorial giant rat - Wikipedia

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    The fossorial giant rat (Gyldenstolpia fronto) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. [2] It is found in Argentina and Brazil but was determined extinct following a recent assessment of the conservation status of Sigmodontine rodents. [3] Its natural habitat is assumed to be dry savanna, but there have been no ecological details ...

  7. Common mole-rat - Wikipedia

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    Common mole-rats are fossorial and can live in a wide range of substrates. They are herbivorous, mainly eating geophytes (plants with underground storage organs) and grass rhizomes. Common mole-rats are very widespread, thus their abundance is not well known. This species shows signs of localization due to soil requirements.

  8. Smooth-toothed pocket gopher - Wikipedia

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    Though the size of their eyes are typical for rodents, the lens is able to transmit light rays that fall into the ultraviolet range. They possess three different photopigments: two cone pigments specific to 367 nm and 505 nm, and a rod pigment at 495 nm. Overall, the pocket gophers have less rod density than nocturnal rodents. [7]

  9. Blind mole-rat - Wikipedia

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    The blind mole-rats, also known as the fossorial or subterranean mole rats, are a subfamily (Spalacinae) of rodents in the family Spalacidae, found in eastern Europe and western and central Asia. The hystricognath mole-rats of the family Bathyergidae are completely unrelated, but some other forms are also in the family Spalacidae.