Procaviidae

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Noun1.Procaviidae - includes all recent members of the order Hyracoidea
family Procaviidae
mammal family - a family of mammals
Hyracoidea, order Hyracoidea - hyraxes and some extinct animals
cony, das, dassie, hyrax, coney - any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes
genus Procavia, Procavia - type genus of the Procaviidae
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Heterohyrax brucei (Gray) (Procaviidae) the Small-toothed Rock Hyrax, is known from the drier parts of Kenya.
Geoffroy, 1818) Hyracoidea Procaviidae Heterohyrax brucei (Gray, 1868) Macroscelidea Macroscelididae Elephantulus cf.
Rediscovery of the "terrible hairy fly", Mormotomyia hirsuta Austen (Diptera: Mormotomyiidae), in eastern Kenya, with notes on biology, natural history, and genetic variation of the Ukasi Hill population
The hyrax order (Hyracoidea) contains a single family, the rock hyrax family (Procaviidae), represented by the large-toothed rock hyrax (Procavia capensis), which lives in the rocky areas of the southern Sahara, as well as in Palestine and Arabia.
2 Life in hot deserts and subdeserts
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