list of rodents

Introduction
suborder Anomaluromorpha
- anomalure family (Anomaluridae)
- spring hare family (Pedetidae)
suborder Castorimorpha
- beaver family (Castoridae)
- kangaroo mice and rats (family Heteromyidae)
- pocket gopher family (Geomyidae)
suborder Hystricomorpha
- agouti family (Dasyproctidae)
- American spiny rat family (Echimyidae)
- blesmol family (Bathyergidae)
- cane rat family (Thryonomyidae)
- cavy family (Caviidae)
- chinchilla family (Chinchillidae)
- chinchilla rat family (Abrocomidae)
- dassie rat family (Petromuridae)
- degu family (Octodontidae)
- diatomyid family (Diatomyidae)
- gundi family (Ctenodactylidae)
- hutia family (Capromyidae)
- New World porcupine family (Erethizontidae)
- nutria family (Myocastoridae)
- Old World porcupine family (Hystricidae)
- paca family (Cuniculidae)
- pacarana family (Dinomyidae)
- tuco-tuco family (Ctenomyidae)
suborder Myomorpha
- cricetid family (Cricetidae)
- dipodid family (Dipodidae)
- mouselike hamster family (Calomyscidae)
- murid family (Muridae)
- nesomyid family (Nesomyidae)
- Oriental dormouse family (Platacanthomyidae)
- spalacid family (Spalacidae)
suborder Sciuromorpha
- dormouse family (Gliridae)
- mountain beaver family (Aplodontiidae)
- squirrel family (Sciuridae)

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Images

An adult capybara (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris) stands in shallow water beside two young capybaras, all with brown fur and rounded bodies.

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Images

An adult capybara (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris) stands in shallow water beside two young capybaras, all with brown fur and rounded bodies.

Capybara

Adult capybara (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris) with her young.

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