Family of rodents
Petromuridae is a family of hystricognath rodents that contains the dassie rat "(Petromus typicus)" of southwestern Africa, the only extant member of this group.
The genus "Petromus" contains a couple of extinct species, and additionally there are fossil genera formerly of the family Thryonomyidae that were found to belong to this family instead; "Apodecter", "Tufamys" and two species of "Paraphiomys" ("australis" and "roessneri") which have yet to be placed in their own genus.
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