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Home Kingdom Animalia Phylum Chordata Subphylum Vertebrata Class Mammalia Order Rodentia Suborder Hystricomorpha Family Thryonomyidae Genus Thryonomys

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lesser cane rat Thryonomys gregorianus	greater cane rat Thryonomys swinderianus

Citation: Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2008. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed October 10, 2008 at http://animaldiversity.org.

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