Meanings
plural ctenomyids
- biologyAny rodent of the family Ctenomyidae.
Ctenomyids first appear in the late Miocene of South America.
2011, Terry A. Vaughan, James M. Ryan, Nicholas J. Czaplewski, Mammalogy, page 2312 more examples
New adaptive radiations of small fossorial rodents followed, including crice- tids in the Pliocene and spalacids and ctenomyids primarily in the Pleistocene.
1979, Richard F. Johnston, Peter W. Frank, Charles Duncan Michener, Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, volume 10, page 271Foraging by geomyids and ctenomyids is more generalized in that all portions of plants may be consumed.
2000, Cristina Busch, C. Daniel Antinuchi, J. Cristina del Valle, Marcelo J. Kittlein, Ana I. Malizia, Aldo I. Vassallo, Roxana R. Zenuto, “Chapter 5: Population Ecology of Subterranean Rodents”, in Eileen A. Lacey, James L. Patton, Guy N. Cameron, editors, Life Underground: The Biology of Subterranean Rodents, page 191Synonyms: tuco-tuco
Synonyms & antonyms
nounAny rodent of the family Ctenomyidae.
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