Ctenodactylomorphi | |
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Ctenodactylus gundi | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Suborder: | Hystricomorpha |
Infraorder: | Ctenodactylomorphi Chaline and Mein, 1979 |
Ctenodactylomorphi is an infraorder of rodent's suborder Hystricomorpha. To that infraorder belongs only one family, Ctenodactylidae Gervais, 1853. [1]
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