family Castoridae

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Related to family Castoridae: Geomyidae, family Muridae, Cricetidae, Erethizontidae, Sciuromorpha, Heteromyidae

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family Castoridae - beavers

Castoridae

mammal family - a family of mammals

Sciuromorpha, suborder Sciuromorpha - large more or less primitive rodents: squirrels; marmots; gophers; beavers; etc.

genus Castor, Castor - type genus of the Castoridae: beavers

Castoroides, genus Castoroides - extinct beavers of the Pleistocene; of eastern and southern United States

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* It's the only surviving member of the family Castoridae, which includes semi-aquatic rodents.

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tridecemlineatus (Mitchill), N thirteen-lined ground squirrel Tamias striatus (Linneaus), I eastern chipmunk Tamiasciurus hudsonicus N (Erxleben), red squirrel Family Geomyidae (pocket gophers) Geomys bursarius (Shaw), plains NW pocket gopher Family Castoridae (beavers) Castor canadensis Kuhl, beaver I The beaver was extirpated by 1900 but was reintroduced.

Revised checklist of the vertebrates of Indiana

Phylogeny of beavers (Family Castoridae): applications to faunal dynamics and biochronology since the Eocene: Unpublished Ph.D.

The Fort Polk Miocene terrestrial microvertebrate sites compared to those from east Texas