🦋 Family

Pedetidae

1 species · Animals

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Animalia › Chordata › Mammalia › Rodentia › Pedetidae
Pedetes capensis (Forster, 1778)

Pedetes capensis (Forster, 1778)

Pedetes capensis (Forster, 1778)

Pedetes capensis (springhare) is a saltatorial southern African rodent with specialised jumping and burrowing adaptations hunted traditionally for meat and skins.

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