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1979, Richard F. Johnston, Peter W. Frank, Charles Duncan Michener, Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, volume 10, page 271:
New adaptive radiations of small fossorial rodents followed, including crice- tids in the Pliocene and spalacids and ctenomyids primarily in the Pleistocene.
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 191:
Foraging by geomyids and ctenomyids is more generalized in that all portions of plants may be consumed.
2011, Terry A. Vaughan, James M. Ryan, Nicholas J. Czaplewski, Mammalogy, page 231:
Ctenomyids first appear in the late Miocene of South America.
Synonyms
(any species of family Ctenomyidae):tuco-tuco(extant species)
