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Pedetidae is a family of mammals from the rodent order.〔http://www.ubio.org/browser/details.php?namebankID=2476920〕〔http://www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/2010/browse/tree/id/2243150〕〔http://starcentral.mbl.edu/microscope/portal.php?pagetitle=classification&BLCHID=69-1873〕〔http://www.organismnames.com/details.htm?lsid=648072〕〔http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Pedetidae.html〕〔http://www.eol.org/pages/8701〕 The two living species, the springhares, are distributed throughout much of southern Africa and also around Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.〔http://data.gbif.org/species/13149100〕 Fossils have been found as far north as Turkey.〔McKenna, M.C. and Bell, S.K. 1997. Classification of Mammals: Above the species level. New York: Columbia University Press, 631 pp. ISBN 978-0-231-11013-6 (p. 185)〕 Together with the anomalures, Pedetidae forms the suborder Anomaluromorpha. The fossil genus ''Parapedetes'' is also related.〔 ==Genera== The family includes one living and three extinct genera. The Asian fossil ''Diatomys'' was previously included,〔 but is now classified in the family Diatomyidae with the Laotian rock rat. *''Pedetes'' Illiger, 1811 (Early Pliocene to Recent in Africa)〔 *''Megapedetes'' Macinnes, 1957 (Early to Middle Miocene in Africa, Saudi Arabia, Israel, and Turkey)〔 *''Oldrichpedetes'' Pickford & Mein, 2011 (Early Miocene to early Pliocene in Africa) *''Rusingapedetes'' Pickford & Mein, 2011 (Early Miocene in Africa)〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pedetidae」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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